“Cricket needs to continue”: India’s World Cup winning star Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma’s Test retirement

Former India cricketer and 2007 T20 World Cup hero Joginder Sharma believes that stallwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who recently bid for the format, is still left enough in their tanks. A month before India’s High-Stec Tour, Mastro Virat Bid Adiu batting in the test format with a hearty note on Instagram last Monday, a few days after his long-time compatriot Rohit retired from the format. Given the future, he admitted that his departure had left a void, but the bench strength suggests that India would overcome mass damage.

“His (Virat Kohli) fitness and performance does not indicate that it was time. I believe he should have played, and even Rohit. A bad patches come for everyone. Our country’s bench comes to the bench strength suggests that we will fix the loss. It is not that a great batsman can come or change him, but the need to continue cricket as required,” said Jogindar said.

Joginder quoted Australia as an example and said that Bagi Greens still has the reputation of being one of the best in the world even after the retirement of “great”, and said, “Even Australia is considered one of the best teams even after the retirement of great players.”

Virat’s 14-year journey in the whites converted India into a result-producing machine. He was full of youth and experience in a team of aggression and fitness. In a career re-defying the demands of the game, Virat scored 9,230 runs at an average of 46.85 with 30 centuries and 31 fifty, and ended as India’s fourth largest run-run in the format.

Rohit called it a day in the Test format, finishing his magnificent career with 4,301 runs, on average of 12 centuries and 18 half -centuries in 67 tests.

Virat’s retirement from Red-Ball cricket marked the continuation of the tendency of migration from the test format in the Indian setup. Prior to Indian batting Bigwigs, luxurious frontline off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin called it a day in the middle of his international career through the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.

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