“Virat Kohli, no …”: Test Cricket Retirement Dialogue following a heartfelt petition by East India Star

Former India batsman Ambati Rayudu gave an emotional note, and after the suggestion of recent reports, Virat Kohli requested not to retire from the test format that modern-day legend made his intentions to call it one day for the control board for cricket in India (BCCI). The report on Saturday, exactly two days after the announcement of retirement from the tests of his long-time team partner Rohit Sharma, flooded the report on Saturday, with five high-sett tests in Headingly from June 20, with his ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 campaign, just one month before kickstarting the 2025-27 campaign.

Rayudu urged Indian giants to stop and reconsider their decision to retire. The 39 -year -old believes that Virat has left “too much” in his tank, while emphasizing that the test format would not be the same without going out to represent the Indian team.

“Virat Kohli please don’t retire. The Indian team needs more than ever. You have a lot of tanks. Test cricket without you will not be without going out for Team India .. Please reconsider,” Rayudu wrote on X.

According to reports, Virat has been having such conversations with the board in the last one month. If Virat is actually retired, it will mark the end of a magnificent 14 -year career in the format, during which he has scored 9,230 runs in average 123 tests on average 46.85 with 30 centuries. He is also the most successful Test captain in India, who has won 40 out of 68 Tests with captaincy tags around his name.

Apart from Rohit, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was retired from international cricket in the midst of Australia Tour last year. Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara are no longer in set-up for a while with middle-order veterans and the decline as senior pacer Mohammed Shami after a long trimmed by injury, Virat is the only senior, as well as all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and Pesar Jasprit Bumrah.

Virat worked for a run during his last Test outing at the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Tour in Australia in 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.

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