Virat Kohli was ‘indicated’ about Captain Return, then ‘Tone Change’: Report claims that the reason behind retirement

Virat Kohli’s retirement from Test cricket has left Indian cricket with a vacuum which cannot be filled for a long time. Already working with the retirement of Ravichandran Ashwin and Rohit Sharma, Indian Test cricket lost the services of Kohli, Kohli on 12 May through an Instagram post, announced that it would no longer continue in the longest format. He was not eager to continue in tests, there was a discussion that was very loud in the leading days for the announcement. But when this happened, most people were surprised as reports suggested that BCCI and many other big names tried to persuade Kohli to continue playing with India’s tour of England starting in June.

Now, according to the report, Virat Kohli was indicated that he could again be made the Indian cricket team Test captain during India’s visit to India in December-January. In the Sports Today video report, it is said that Kohli was indicated about the return to captaincy. This happened when India lost a second test under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy in Adelaide.

The report said, “At least those close to them feel that they were indicated that they were given a hint that they would get captaincy after Adelaide. But then things changed.”

India then lost the series and the report mentioned that there was a ‘change in tone’ and however the process of team management was that it should look at a young captain. The report mentions that Kohli was still expected to bring back under captaincy and also played the Ranji Trophy match for Delhi in February, as is mandatory by the BCCI. But in April, Kohli was told that he was as a player. The star then decided to retire.

In fact, former India cricketer and national selector Sardeep Singh, who is also the coach of the Delhi team, recently made some surprising revelations.

Singh said, “There was no indication (of retirement). Not heard from anywhere. A few days ago, I was talking to him, but I did not get any indication that he was thinking about it. The kind of IPL he was doing, he is incredible,” Singh said.

“I asked him if he would play county cricket before Test matches. He said that he wanted to play two India ‘A’ matches before the Test series (against England). It was already decided. Suddenly, we hear that he will not play red ball cricket anymore. There is no farm issue. Most senior players in the team.”

With the latest report, it may have more reasons than Kohli’s retirement.