Virat Kohli, the star batter of the Indian cricket team, left the cricket world as he announced his retirement from Test cricket on Monday. Kohli, who is considered one of the best batsmen in modern cricket, took to social media to announce that he would retire from the longest format of the game with immediate effect. The report is reporting to the BCCI about communicating its decision, but was asked to reconsider their stance. However, just a few days after Rohit Sharma declared his retirement, Kohli also faced England in the five -match Test series with India in June. (Virat Kohli Test Retirement Live Update)
The time for Kohli’s announcement was quite interesting as it came only a few days after Rohit’s decision and before the selectors had a serious discussion about the squad for the England Test series.
One of the major reasons behind Kohli is right now, declaration of its retirement, can be to provide selectors over time to decide on the squad for England. Without Rohit and Kohli in the mix, India has a young top-order, but has a lot of names that have claimed the positions.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill have long been considered the future of Indian batting line-ups with Shreyas Iyer and Sai Sudarshan. The absence of Virat may also open the door to provide some stability in the position of number 3 for an experienced campaigner like Cheteshwar Pujara.
Another major factor behind Virat’s retirement may face conflicts against Australia in 2024 during the Border -Gavaskar Trophy. Virat had a forgetable campaign with 190 runs in 5 matches – a figure that becomes infinitely worse when someone assumes that it includes a century. Kohli’s struggle with delivery outside the off -stamp became a head -among the two experts as well as fans.
England may be the next assignment and the New World Test Championship (WTC) cycle can also be introduced, Kohli can fully watch to focus and focus on ODI cricket.
Virat retired from Test cricket with 9230 runs in 123 matches, which at an impressive average of 46.85 with 30 centuries and 51 half -centuries. He also ended the fourth-most successful Test captain behind the Graeme Smith (53 wins), Ricky Ponting (48 wins), and Steve Waugh (41 wins).
This is an important record for any cricketer, but an achievement for which he is still craving. In recent times, Star Batter has spoken several times about winning the ODI World Cup in 2027. The 2023 campaign was broken a huge heart as India closed before losing in the final.
Kohli was a standout artist for the side who won all his matches before losing to Australia in the summit Clash. As a result, it is possible that Kohli deemed it right to let the test career go and put it in form for his complete concentration and the next ODI World Cup campaign to keep himself fit.
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