After the retirement of Virat Kohli de Test Cricket, the vice-president of the Cricket Control Council (BCCI), Rajeev, Shukla, praised the star striker for his contribution to the longest format, saying that even if he does not feel well when he left, the board of directors respects his personal decision. In a massive development before the Five Matches in England tour, which will launch the ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 ICC campaign, Virat Kohli announced his test retirement after 14 years, marking the end of a brilliant career extending over 14 years and 123 tests. Speaking to Ani, Shukla said: “Virat Kohli’s contribution for test cricket and India has been great. Any number of praise is less. We do not feel good that he withdrew from the test cricket. But that is his individual decision, and BCCI never put pressure on a retirement player. We should respect the decision.
He made his debut in the test in June 2011 against the Antilles. While his first test tour was a massive disappointment with only 76 points in five rounds, a young Virat made a name for serious blows and counterattack in the coming days. His ascent as a test player started with his young daughter against Australia in Adelaide in 2012, when he made 116 in 213 balls. In a tour where no other could touch 300 points for India and the giants like Sachin Tentulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Virender Sehwag seemed in the shadow of their dominant self, Virat is at the top of India with 300 races in four tests, including a century and fifty. Between 2011 and 2015, he carried out 2,994 points in 41 tests at an average of 44.03, with 11 centuries and 12 fifty in 72 rounds.
Between 2016 and 2019, Virat experienced one of the first strongest mats of all time for a test cricket player, accumulating 4,208 points in 43 tests at an average of 66.79, with 16 centuries and 10 fifty in 69 rounds and the best score of 254 *. It also included seven double centuries, most of them by a captain in the history of cricket.
However, the 2020s were not great for the superstar striker, having only made 2,028 points in 39 tests to a disappointing average of 30.72, with only three centuries and nine to display in 69 rounds. His figure received a boost from a fine 2023, where he made 671 points in eight tests at an average of 55.91, with two centuries and two fifty in 12 rounds.
During all this period, Virat fought against certain notable weaknesses in the format, in particular against deliveries outside the outstanding line and against the spinners.
He finished last year with only 382 points in 10 tests to a shocking average of 22.47, with only a century and fifty in 19 sleeves. His latest test outing was the Border-Gavaskar Trophy tour in Australia in November-January, where he only made 190 points in nine rounds on average of 23.75, his century in Perth being a culminating point. This century was his first since July 2023, when he struck a ton against the Antilles in Port of Spain in 2023. In addition, his last century in the country came against Australia at the beginning of 2023 during the Border-Gavaskar trophy in Ahmedabad.
Virat’s career has been to overcome several setbacks and to take Indian cricket to new heights.
Whether it is to break a point of Australian attack led by Mitchell Johnson for 692 points, including four centuries during the tour in Australia in 2014-15 and promising to be the new captain, guiding India to the maces of the ICC World Championship, having a dream and redemption tour in England in 2018 worth 593 races and five In 10 Infinte Centurion, Melbourne, Perth, Edgbaston and at home with a few world class strokes, the 36 -year -old gave fans of tons of memories to replay and cherish forever.
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