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Right now, Virat Kohli is driving the IPL 2026 storyline, reclaiming the Orange Cap on April 25 with 81 off 44 that pushed Royal Challengers Bengaluru to second place. Hearing him on We’re Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends today gives fans the form player of the season in real time, as the cap race and RCB’s title defense swing game by game.
His perspective hits harder after he ended India’s ICC title drought with 76 in the T20 World Cup final on June 29, 2024, then announced his T20I retirement that night. With RCB freshly labeled an IPL champion and now in a nearly 1.8 billion dollar sale to a new ownership group announced March 24, 2026, Kohli’s take on pressure, loyalty and the future of the game matters today, so back this episode and support this nomination.
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Apr 28, 2026
A nomination is now live calling on Virat Kohli (@imvkohli) to sit down with Mehdi Hasan on We're Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends, the Zeteo podcast where funny people talk about serious things.
Apr 28, 2026
On April 27, 2026, Kohli crossed 9,000 IPL runs in the DC vs RCB match — a milestone no player has reached before — making him one of the most talked-about athletes on the planet right now and a compelling guest for a show that goes beyond the sport.
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You praised demonetisation as 'the greatest move in the history of Indian politics' in 2016 — do you stand by that, and what does it tell us that you've barely commented on Indian politics since?
This is the quote Kohli's critics and defenders have been arguing about for years, yet he has never revisited it in a long-form interview. Mehdi is one of the few hosts sharp enough — and with enough political context — to actually hold him to it without it becoming a gotcha.
You publicly called out Islamophobic abuse of Mohammed Shami in front of the world's media, reportedly against BCCI orders — so why has silence been your default on every other political question in India since?
This is the position Kohli has never publicly stated: why that one line and not others. For a show that routinely asks its guests to account for the gap between their values and their public voice, this is the question the audience desperately wants asked.
You retired from Tests in May 2025 saying 'it's not easy — but it feels right' — six months later, watching India get whitewashed in Tests without you, did it still feel right?
Kohli's public retirement statement was carefully worded and emotionally contained. Mehdi has a gift for pressing past the press release version of a feeling, and this question puts Kohli right on that edge between the official story and the honest one.
