RCB and India batting star Virat Kohli has opened up on his equation and relation with India pacer and Delhi teammate Ishant Sharma. From the age group to the senior level, the two Delhi mates have played together.

With Ishant making his India debut first in 2007 and Kohli joining him a year later in 2008 the lineup, the two legends made their debuts on the international front nearly simultaneously.

In a recent RCB Podcast called Bold and Beyond, which was hosted by Mayanti Langer, Kohli was questioned about his relationship with Ishant. The batting superstar said that he can share everything with him without any judgment.

"Ishant is someone I naturally connected with, from Day 1, absolutely nothing has changed, regardless of whether we play together or we don't play together - I can absolutely share everything with him, without any judgement, with complete understanding and complete empathy. So he is a very special individual in my life," Kohli said in the podcast.

Ishant was doing the announcing duties when Kohli and the Indian team won the T20 World Cup last year, and he was crying because he was seeing history.

In response to Ishan's emotional outburst following India's T20 World Cup victory, Kohli claimed that the pacer understood the importance of raising the trophy following all of the prior disappointments and understood what everyone was going through.

"Whenever you are connected with someone in a strong way, you can feel what they could be going through and could have gone through. I think that energy reaches everyone. We were all emotional about it because we were trying for so long, there have been a lot of ups and downs," he added.

Notably, India’s last ICC tournament win before the 2024 T20 World Cup triumph came in 2013 Champions Trophy and Kohli and Ishant were both part of champion Indian team.