Indian captain Virat Kohli is currently in New Zealand preparing for the upcoming two-Test series against the home side. India has already won the T20I series 5-0 and lost the ODIs 3-0. The Indian captain is one of the most successful batsmen in cricket today.

However, with the upcoming years featuring a couple of ICC tournaments including ICC Test Championship and ODI Championship itself, the Indian skipper has readied himself or playing in all three formats for atleast three more years.

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“My mindset is on the bigger picture as I prepare myself for a rigorous three years from now and after that, we might have a different conversation,” Kohli said asked of he will quit atleast one format after the 2021 T20 World Cup, to be played in India.

“It’s not a conversation you can hide away from in any manner. It is around eight years now that I have been playing 300 days a year, which includes traveling and practice sessions. And intensity is right up there all the time. It does take a toll on you,” he said.

Kohli, who will be 32 this year, has taken regular breaks from cricket, which has kept him fresh. He says, “It’s not that the players are not thinking about it all the time. We do choose to take a lot more breaks individually even though the schedule might not allow you to. Especially guys, who play all the formats.”

“Periodic breaks seem to work pretty okay for me. At a time where the body can’t take anymore, maybe when I am 34 or 35, we will have a different conversation. For the next two to three years I have no issues at all. I can keep going on with the same intensity and also understand that the team wants a lot of my contribution in the next two to three years so that I can ease into another transition that we faced five-six years ago,” Kohli concluded.

(PTI inputs)