'I should have spoken to him before' - Former India cricketer opens up about his relationship with Virat Kohli

India's former cricketer opened up about his relationship with Virat Kohli and what happened after one interview a few months back. Read the article to know more about it.

Virat Kohli (Image | ICC on X)

India's former cricketer Robin Uthappa opened up about an incident that almost impacted his relationship with star cricketer Virat Kohli. Several months ago, in a podcast, Uthappa revealed a few things about Kohli and his captaincy which went viral on socia media. However, after that podcast, his relationship with Kohli was shaken.

While talking on his recent podcast, he opened up about his learnings and admitted that he should have spoken to Kohli first before saying anything in the public. It was an honest admission from the former player on his YouTube channel, 'Robin Uthappa'. He also revealed that after the incident he spoke with Kohli and apolozised to him later.

"In that whole conversation, the intent was not to speak about Virat. That interview was meant to be about me. I was asked a question which I spoke to. I didn't take into consideration at that point the sentiments of Virat or the fact that even if this is what I believe, he should know what I believe and that gives me the right to voice that. My relationship with Virat was impacted by that. My learning from that was, when I spoke to him, that I should have spoken to him before," said Uthappa on his YouTube channel.

Uthappa was Kohli's team mate in the national side as well as in the IPL and he spoke about what he felt happened to one of his closest friends. He opened up about the same thing in the podcast and mentioned that he spoke about Kohli's style and the way of handling the team. Uthappa played for RCB back in 2009-10 when Kohli was a young cricketer.

"I didn't speak about my experience with Virat. I spoke about what I saw one of my closest friends experience under his leadership. It wasn't even his leadership, it was the style of leadership. Everyone is entitled to have their own style, and everyone is entitled to have their opinion on that style. That was my learning that I should have spoken about it to him and that sensitivity we must extend to cricketers or people in the same fraternity," he added.

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