“More than more than …”: East-India cricketers explain how Virat Kohli will be remembered

Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket on Monday, really marked the end of a brilliant era in Indian cricket. According to former Indian cricketer and senior women’s team coach WV Raman, Kohli’s biggest achievement was realizing Test cricket that it was the most important format to play the game. Through an Instagram post on Monday, 36-year-old Kohli brought the curtain down on a brilliant test career-scored 9230 runs in 123 matches, an average of 46.85-Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar became the fourth highest run-runner for India after India.

Kohli will also be remembered for playing Test cricket and urging young fans to see a large number of format in stadiums. “She was a great ambassador for Test cricket, and she is the one who scored a consecutive run as a greatness. I will rate her as a great in Test cricket. Also the kind of passion he infects as a captain in the Indian team, it is something that is unprecedented while playing Test cricket.

“I am sure everyone would agree with such endorsements that Virat Kohli was for Test cricket. I think it will probably be remembered for a long, long time. Certainly, the numbers will be remembered, no doubt about it.

“But more than the number, Virat Kohli’s legacy is one that was actually kept to keep the test cricket and everyone realized that Test was the most important format of cricket cricket, I think it was a remarkable aspect of his career,” Raman said in a special conversation with IANAS.

Kohli, who started his test against the West Indies in June 2011, also led India in 68 matches of the game. Under Kohli’s captaincy, India won 40 matches, including winning a border-Gavaskar trophy series in Australia for the first time in 2018-19, making it the country’s most successful test captain ever.

“The kind of intensity that she brought-is such that if you are a batsman-cum-player, as she was before becoming a captain, you will probably try and keep your own lawyer, you will try what you are ready to do on the field. But I think he was someone who was infectious with his intensity, even before the captaincy.

“Then when he became the captain, it was all a matter of going in and going out, the kind of culture he brought. I think you cannot restrict it in a special game or a special series if you are talking about his infectious nature on the field in terms of intensity and intensity and aggression of Virat.

“I think there is a symbol of Virat Kohli more than more or less. It is not to say that others did not do so, but it was clearly one who was a very protesting. The fact of the fact that the results during his tenure as a captain were also with such a mentality, which everyone was together.

In recent times, Kohli struggled to score continuously in tests. He scored 190 runs in nine innings of the 2024/25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, which India lost 3–1. Of them, 100 runs came in an unbeaten second innings in Parth.

IANS also reported on Saturday that Kohli had informed his desire to retire from the format before the England tour starting on June 20. The BCCI also tried in a highly impressive cricketing figure and to convince Kohli not to retire from the format, but it did not help.

“I think generally, cricketers clearly realize the intestine when they had enough. So when they decide to leave it because it’s something they don’t know when it is likely to happen. It is all about the mind suddenly, ‘Ok, is sufficient, let’s try and move forward in life’. So when cricketers retire.”

“I think there is something that Virat was thinking for some time, whatever we get to read in the reports in recent times. So once he had enough, I think it is going to be difficult for anyone to rule the thumb in that stage of his career.

After Rohit Sharma announced his test retirement, it comes to retiring from Kohli’s tests. A experienced pair, which retired in a week, means that India will travel for England’s five -match Test tour, which will have a huge vacuum in batting order.

“I think all these youths who have been part of the team in recent times should be considered a big opportunity to take and say,” Okay. It is not now that we will probably get as much as Rohit did or Virat did. Vesceded. “

“They are trying and to think about it is to get an opportunity for a long -term purpose. They have to try and make sure that they step by step. I am sure that there is enough talent available in the country. But it is not very excited about all that there will be not much for the people coming in their way.

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