“Should respect your decision …”: BCCI’s big Virat Kohli should be taken on retirement

After the retirement of Virat Kohli from Test cricket, the Control Board for Cricket (BCCI) Vice President Rajiv Shukla appreciated the star batter for his longest contribution to the longest format, saying that he does not feel good about his departure, the board respects his personal decision. In a large-scale development before the England Tour of Five matches, which will kickstart India’s ICC World Test Championships 2025-27 campaign, Virat Kohli declared his retirement from the Test after 14 years, which ends 14 years and 123 testing. Talking to Annie, Shukla said, “Virat Kohli’s contribution for Test cricket and India has been very good. Any kind of praise is less. We are not good that he has retired from Test cricket. But this is his personal decision, and BCCI is never ready to think on a player for retirement.

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. Between 2011 and 2015, he scored 2,994 runs in 41 tests at an average of 44.03, with 12 centuries and 12 half -centuries in 72 innings.

Between 2016 and 2019, Virat had one of the strongest batting prime for a Test cricketer, scoring 4,208 runs in 43 tests at 66.79, with 10 fifty and 254*in 16 centuries and 69 innings. It also included seven double centuries, which was the highest by a captain in Test cricket history.

However, it has not been very good for superstar batsman in the 2020s, which has scored just 2,028 runs in average 39 tests of 30.72, with just three centuries and nine fifty in 69 innings with a fifty. His number received a great boost in 2023, where he scored 671 runs in eight tests on an average of 55.91, with two centuries and two fifties in 12 innings.

During this entire time limit, Virat fought with some notable weaknesses in the format, especially against the off-stump line and against delivery against spinners.

He finished on a shocking average of 22.47 with just 382 runs in 10 tests last year, with just one century and fifty in 19 innings. His last Test outing was the Border-Gavaskar Trophy tour in Australia since November-January, where he scored just 190 runs in nine innings of 23.75, with a highlight in his century in Perth. This was his first since July 2023, when he hit a tonne against the West Indies in Port of Spain in 2023. In addition, his last century at home came against Australia during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Ahmedabad in early 2023.

Virat’s career has been about overcoming many failures and taking Indian cricket to a new height.

During the Australia Tour in 2014-15, to break an extreme Australian attack led by Mitchell Johnson for 692 runs, including four centuries, to guide India for the ICC World Test Championship Mac, like a dream in 2018, a dream, during a dream, after a five-fifty runs, five fifty runs, after five fifty runs, after five fifty runs. With the Centurion, Melbourne, Perth, Edgbaston and some world -class knock at their home, the 36 -year -old has given tons to fans to play and cherish forever.