To the consternation of many, ex-India captain Virat Kohli has announced his management of retiring from Test cricket, just weeks ahead of India’s golden opportunity to play England’s expected tour. Kohli announced his departure from Test cricket just a few days after Rohit Sharma quit the red-ball format. Kohli formally announced his retirement, and the revelation has sent waves of reaction among cricketers on Monday morning.
With 9,230 runs from 113 matches at an average of 46.8, Virat Kohli who is still shy of 10,000 With a position of fourth in India’s all-time run-getters in Tests (after Sachin Tendulkar 15,921, Rahul Dravid 13,265) and Sunil Gavaskar 10,122, he manages to make room for himself In an emotional post on Monday, the Indian captain wrote about his thoughts and experiences as a Test player. “I have now been playing in Test matches for 14 years from the day I stepped out onto it in my first game. This form of cricket broke my boundaries, taught me character, and taught me eternal classes. And the experience of wearing whites has a deep emotional echo – it’s the quiet work, the in-your-skin growth that characters undergo in everyday life.”
After the last Test match against Australia in Sydney, Kohli retired. With this retirement, we bid farewell to an era as several key veteran players, such as Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, are bowing out of the Test fold. Without Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, the India team set to play in England will lack experience. Ravindra Jadeja would not be an unlikely choice to become the oldest in the squad that is to be made public next week.
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