'Have no shame in admitting that I made many mistakes as captain' - Virat Kohli's heartfelt acceptance will leave fans inspired

Even though Virat Kohli openly acknowledged that he made many mistakes while serving as captain, he insisted that his intentions were always good. Although Kohli captained India to multiple historic victories in the bilateral series, he came under fire for failing to take home an major trophy. During his time with the Indian squad, he revolutionised Indian cricket's approach to fitness. He achieved great things in red-ball cricket, including the first-ever Test series victory on Australian soil. Under Kohli's leadership, the Asian superpowers played a combative style of cricket in the Test matches.

After the 2021 20-20 World Cup, Kohli resigned as India's T20I captain. He was also relieved of his ODI captaincy because the selectors preferred having one captain for all white-ball competitions. The master batsman also gave up the Test captaincy in early 2022 following the South Africa tour.

'I can totally accept if I have taken the decisions correctly or not' – Virat Kohli

In a segment of PUMA's Let There Be Sport documentary series, Kohli claimed that as the captain of the Indian team, he never had any self-serving intentions. He acknowledged that he did make mistakes while in office, which is inevitable in any game.

"Hundred per cent. So I have no shame in accepting that I have made many mistakes when I was the captain. But the one thing I know for sure that I never did anything for my own selfish motives that I can take guarantee of that from the one to the last day. I have not done anything for myself. I just had one goal to take the team ahead. I can totally accept if I have taken the decisions correctly or not.  I can totally accept it you make mistakes like you make errors when you get out; that's a failure. Failures will keep happening, but the intent was never in the wrong place. So I can absolutely take guarantee of that. Till that is in its right place, you will make mistakes, but you will learn from that as I said, you will not then start shining away from making things," Kohli said.

"My intentions were always right. The ways I said you had to tweak according to individuals. Many times decisions have been wrong, but these things teach you a lot. Then you start taking it as the whole journey and what went well, but then go right and then you learn from all situations, so that's exactly what happened," he added.