The main story of his injury begins here when he played back to back games for Indian side with no break and following it with ipl. He confirmed the problem in a live with kevin.
he is having cervical spine issue which forced bcci to rest him and make him fresh for world cup 2019. He turned vegan also for this reason only. The symptoms of cervical spine issue is as follows.
This could have also created a fear for kohli as workload might make it serious. He wanted to make his playing years a bit more so he stepped down from captaincy.in 2017 and 2018 alone he played 13 tests while from 2019 he has played just 20 games. In odis he played 26 odis in 2017 while played just 14 in 2018 and also in 2019 including wc he played 26 odis he missed asia cup also and in t20is he missed several series like third t20i against south africa ,series against new zealand , nihadas trophy, bangladesh series he was quite inactive in t20is since the injury.
In 2018 he signed a contract in county aswell but missed it due to a slip disc issue. And he went to a hospital instead of physio it created lot of contraversies.
