“World cricket brand ambassador …”: Virat Kohli gets great praise from pre-selector after Test retirement

Former India cricketer and national selector Sardeep Singh said that he considers Virat Kohli an icon and has played one of the greatest Test cricketers anytime. On Monday morning, Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket, bringing curtains on a 14 -year career, consisting of 9230 runs in 123 matches, an average of 46.85 on average. “Virat is actually an icon. He is one of the greatest players playing Test cricket. He always preferred to play and win cricket matches all the time. He always lived to promote Test cricket before everything. For me, Virat Kohli is a brand ambassador of world cricket and has done a lot to promote Test cricket among players and fans.”

“He will always tell the youth that you should play Test cricket and be known as Test cricketers, instead that they are known for playing white-ball cricket. The way he played Test cricket will be remembered by the entire cricketing world. He did the captaincy of the Test team so well.”

Apart from being India’s fourth largest run-goldter in the tests, Kohli also led the side in 68 matches in the longest format of the game. Under Kohli’s captaincy, India won 40 matches, including winning a border-Gavaskar trophy series in Australia for the first time in 2018-19, making it the country’s most successful test captain ever.

After Rohit Sharma announced his test retirement, it comes to retiring from Kohli’s tests. The experienced pair, which retired in a week, means that India will travel for their five -match five -match Test tour with a huge vacuum in their batting order.

Sarandip, who was the head coach of Delhi, when Kohli played a Ranji Trophy match after 12 years – earlier this year at Arun Jaitley Stadium against Railways – was accepted to be dispersed to play the decision of the talisman batsman and realized the team, now he was still needed.

“It comes as a very amazing development for me because I still think he can play for another 2-3 years. All this happened very soon because Test cricket is needed very badly for Virat Kohli. With him, now he is going away from Test cricket with him, people will stop watching it now.

“When Virat played the test, someone had a feeling of ‘Virat is coming, Virat Aa Hai’ and he preferred to see him playing for a long time. It’s not that he would never take retirement – it will have to come in every cricketer. But I think it has come very early on seeing the level of fitness and performance at his level. I think I think the Indian team needs a few more years.

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