Virat Kohli announced retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect, shared emotional post

After the days of speculation, Indian cricket great Virat Kohli has confirmed his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect in an emotional post on Instagram. After the India Test, Captain Rohit Sharma confirmed his retirement from the longest format of the game, Kohli’s report interacted with the same intentions for the control board for cricket in India (BCCI), sending shockwaves to the cricket spectrum. It was reported that the board is interacting with Kohli to change his mind, but it seems that the result was unsuccessful.

In his post, Virat recalled his debut 14 years ago, when he first wore Bagi Blue in his career.

“It has been 14 years when I first wore Bagi Blue in Test cricket. Honestly, I never imagined this journey that this format will take me. It has tested me, shaped me, and taught me a lesson that I will take for life. I will take it for life.

Virat Kohli’s Instagram Post. pic.twitter.com/dtxu7phvly

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Virat also said that the decision to call it was not easy, but it felt it ‘right’. “As I am away from this format, it’s not easy – but it seems right. I have given it everything that I had, and it was given to me a lot as much as I could expect. I am going away with gratitude -filled heart – for the game, for the game, with the people I have shared the field, and for every person who saw me in this way.”

“I will always look at my test career with a smile.”#269, signing, “he concluded.

Kohli depicted a total of 123 tests for India, scoring an average of 9,230 runs at 46.85, which included 30 centuries and 31 fifty decades, with the highest score of 254. However, they would probably have a regret, will not reach the 10,000 run mark in the tests.