“Brand Ambassador Of World Cricket…”: Virat Kohli Receives Huge Praise From Ex-Selector After Test Retirement

The former Cricket Player in India and National Selector Sarandeep Singh said he considered Virat Kohli as an icon and one of the greatest players of test cricket to have ever played the format. Monday morning, Kohli announced his Cricket test retirement, bringing curtains to a glorious 14 -year -old career, including 9,230 points in 123 games with an average of 46.85. “Virat is an icon in fact. He is one of the best players to have played test cricket. He has always liked to play and win test cricket matches all the time. He was still there to promote the game test cricket above all. For me, Virat Kohli is the ambassador of the world cricket brand and has done so much to promote the test tests and the fans.”

“He would always say to the young people you should play test cricket and be known as the test cricket, instead of being known to play white ball cricket. The way he played test cricket, which we will miss a lot,” Sarandep said in an exclusive conversation with the IEans.

In addition to being the highest fourth of the test run-details, Kohli also led the team in 68 games in the longest format of the game. Under the captain of Kohli, India won 40 games, including winning a Border-Gavaskar trophy series in Australia for the first time in 2018-2019, making him the most successful test captain.

Kohli’s decision to withdraw from tests occurs a few days after Rohit Sharma announced his test retirement. The veteran duo who retires in a week means that India will travel for their five game tour in England with a huge vacuum in their strike order.

Sarandeep, who was Delhi’s head coach when Kohli played a Ranji trophy match after 12 years – against the railways at the Arun Jaitley stadium earlier this year – admitted to having been surprised by the Talismanic striker’s decision to leave the game tests and felt the team, now firmly in a transition period, still needed him.

“It comes as a very surprising development for me because I always think it can play for 2-3 years. All of this has happened very soon because the test cricket needs Virat Kohli very badly. With him who is now moving away from the test cricket, people will now stop watching him.

“When Virat played tests, we had this feeling of” Virat arrives, Virat arrives “and they loved watching him play the longer format. It is not that he will never retire – he must arrive at each cricket player. But I think that has had a little too many tests, given his level of repetition and performance. I think strongly.

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