An emotional Virat Kohli dropping to his knees in tears showed how much he yearned for the IPL title over the last 18 years and how much winning the tournament means to players, concluded Punjab Kings’s head coach Ricky Ponting.

Kohli got emotional towards the end of the IPL final here on Tuesday, in which his team Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Punjab Kings by six runs to lift their first-ever trophy since the tournament’s inaugural edition in 2008. “You can see in his eyes in that last over, he was shedding a tear, that’s what it means to players, that’s what it means to everyone,” Ponting said. 

“Chennai have won it a few times, Mumbai have won it a few times, but it’s not an easy tournament to win — it is as simple as that — and you have to think long and hard about that. It’s not easy to win this thing,” he added.