Mumbai: After Virat Kohli’s explosive interview on the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI’s) latest diktat limiting family time for players during overseas tours, his wife Anushka Sharma dropped a cryptic ‘perception’ post on her Instagram stories on Monday.
“A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you. The person you think of as ‘yourself’ only exists for you, and even you don’t really know who that is. Every person you meet, have a relationship with, or make eye contact on the street with, creates a version of ‘you’ in their heads,” Anushka shared.
Explaining how you’re not the same person when you are with your co-workers and family members, he note read, “You’re not the same person to your mom, your dad, your siblings than you are to your co-workers, your neighbors or your friends. There are a thousand different versions of yourself out there, in people’s minds. A ‘you’ exists in each version and yet your ‘you’, ‘yourself’ isn’t really a ‘someone’ at all.”
Anushka’s post left the internet divided. Some speculated that it was meant to support her husband, while others believed it was just like any other post.
One person wrote, “OP I don’t think she put up Instagram stories for any particular incident (like virat one you said).”
BCCI recently announced a strict travel policy for players’ wives and girlfriends. “Players absent from India for more than 45 days during overseas tours can be joined by their partners and children (under 18) for one visit per series (format wise) of up to a two-week period.”
Expressing his disappointment, Virat said, “It’s very difficult to explain to people how grounding it is to just come back to your family every time you have something which is intense, which happens on the outside.”
He added, “I don’t think people have an understanding of what value it brings to a large extent. And I feel quite disappointed about that because it’s like people who have no control over what’s going on are kind of brought into conversations and put out at the forefront that, ‘oh, maybe they need to be kept away’.”
Anushka often accompanies Virat during his matches.
