India’s Virat Kohli retires from Test cricket: ‘I’ve given everything I had’

Virat Kohli has announced his status from Test cricket, bringing down the curtain connected a sparkling vocation successful the longest format conscionable days aft skipper Rohit Sharma did the same.

“It’s been 14 years since I archetypal wore the baggy bluish successful Test cricket,” the 36-year-old posted connected societal media. “Honestly, I ne'er imagined the travel this format would instrumentality maine on. It’s tested me, shaped me, and taught maine lessons I’ll transportation for life.

“There’s thing profoundly idiosyncratic astir playing successful whites. The quiescent grind, the agelong days, the tiny moments that nary 1 sees but that enactment with you forever. As I measurement distant from this format, it’s not casual – but it feels right. I’ve fixed it everything I had, and it’s fixed maine backmost truthful overmuch much than I could’ve hoped for.

“I’m walking distant with a bosom afloat of gratitude – for the game, for the radical I shared the tract with, and for each azygous idiosyncratic who made maine consciousness seen on the way. I’ll ever look backmost astatine my Test vocation with a smile.”

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