After Test retirement, Virat Kohli’s renovation with Ajinkya Rahane goes viral. Watch

The IPL 2025 is set to resume from the Kolkata Knight Riders hosting at M Chinnaswamy Stadium with the royal challengers Bangalore from Saturday. T20 league from midway suspended due to border tension between India and Pakistan. The first match will be an important for RCB after the resume starts as a win will take them directly to the playoffs. In addition, the game will also be a special as it marks the first appearance of star batter Virat Kohli after announcing its retirement from Test cricket.

Next to the match, a hearty moment was caught between Kohli and KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane, making fans emotional. In a video posted on KKR’s X handle (East Twitter), Kohli and Rahane were seen meeting each other during the practice session.

#TataAPL2025 Action is returned!

Location: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru pic.twitter.com/1oitoomd41

– kolkataknightriders (@kkriders) May 15, 2025

During their meeting, the two were seen hugging each other in the Indian Test team, triggering the memories of their days. Rahane was one of the most important members of the Indian Test setup, but has been ignored by the selectors since 2023.

Prior to the five-Test England tour of India’s ICC World Test Championship campaign, 36-year-old Virat sent shockwaves to world cricket after announcing his decision to pull the screen on his 14 years, 123-Match-Lumb Test career.

In his test career, the 36 -year -old performed 123 in white clothes, scoring an average of 46.85 to score 31 fifty and 254*in 30 centuries and 210 innings. He is India’s fourth largest run-run-goldter, in the format behind Sachin Tendulkar (15,921 runs), Rahul Dravid (13,265 runs), and Sunil Gavaskar (10,122 runs).

He made his Test debut against the West Indies in June 2011. While his first Test tour was a great disappointment with just 76 runs in five innings, a young Virat made a name for himself with some serious, counter -attack in the coming days. His rise as a test player began in 2012 with his young woman tonne against Australia in Adelaide, when he scored 116 runs in 213 balls.

In a tour where no other can touch 300 runs for India and veterans like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, and Virender Sehwag saw the shadow of their prominent people, Virat scored the top for India with 300 runs in four tests including a century and fifty.

(With ANI input)