Virat Kohli test retirement plans revealed: Report says that ‘for these conversations …’

Indian batting legend Virat Kohli has communicated his intention to retiring from Test cricket for a control board for cricket in India (BCCI), said Espncricinfo on Saturday. The report is two days after the Batter and his long-time team partner Rohit Sharma, which announced its retirement from the whites and India kicted its ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 campaign with a five-match series against England, which began from Headingly from 20 June. According to Espncricinfo, Virat has been having such a conversation with the board in the last one month. If Virat is actually retired, it will mark the end of the 14 -year magnificent test career, during which he scored 9,230 runs in 123 tests, with 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 Armband.

During 2016-2019, Virat enjoyed one of the largest prime in the longest format history, scoring an average of 66.79 runs in 43 tests with 4,208 runs, scoring 16 centuries and 10 half-centuries in 69 innings, which made him one of the biggest ambassadors of the draft.

However, the 2020s has not been very good for superstar batsmen, who scored just 2,028 runs in 39 tests at an average of 30.72, with nine fifty in 69 innings with just three centuries and nine half -centuries. 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.

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, he has so far come in a domestic century against Australia in early 2023 since its centenary, which was during the Seema-Gavaskar Trophy in Ahmedabad.

Despite the below curve of his form, it is understood that team management and selectors want their experience for the tour of England, where Rohit is playing under a new captain after Rohit declared his retirement. Young batsman Shubman Gill is the top contender for Captain Armband.

Apart from Rohit, Ravichandran Ashwin announced his retirement from international cricket last year in the midst of Australia Tour. 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.

While England was a country where Virat first gave a big blow during his 2014 tour, scored just 134 runs in 10 innings and lost his wicket for Pesar James Anderson, it was the 2018 tour, which marks Virat’s peak in England, topped the runs with 593 runs at an average of 593.

In the 2021 tour of England, Virat scored 249 runs in five matches at an average of 27.66, with two fifties in nine innings. Virat has played 17 Tests in England, scored 1,096 runs on an average of 33.21, with five half -centuries in two centuries and 33 innings and the best score of 149.

2018 marked Virat at the top of his powers in the test, scored 1,322 runs in 13 tests and 24 innings at an average of 55.08, scored with five centuries and five fifty. He scored centuries in South Africa, England, West Indies and Australia, with tons in Perth, Centurion and Edgbaston, is considered as some of his best knocks.