Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has opened up about a conversation he had with Virat Kohli just a week before the star batter’s unexpected retirement from Test cricket.
As Virat Kohli walks away from Test cricket, a chapter closes not just in his career but in the history of Indian sport.
“They’ll talk about the records and milestones,” she wrote on Instagram, “but I’ll remember the tears you never showed, the battles no one saw."
Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from Test cricket, bringing the curtain down on a career spanning 14 years.
Rohit retires from Test cricket after featuring in 67 matches, scoring 4301 runs with a highest score of 212.
After his failure to replicate the success of Perth in Adelaide, there were growing calls of dropping K L Rahul back to No.6, but the Karnataka right-hander continued to enjoy the backing of the team management, and walked out as the opener at the Gabba.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting feels Virat Kohli’s recent batting slump in Test cricket is a ‘concern’, and went on to state that with that kind of form, few in Test cricket would have had the same faith in terms of ongoing selection that Kohli has.
Bangladesh have so far played three Tests in India and lost all three (two by an innings).
Legendary opener Sunil Gavaskar has said the business of bashing India has to be countered with aggression, citing the recent comments made on the possibility of Joe Root surpassing Sachin Tendulkar as the leading run-getter in men’s Test cricket.
Former England skipper Nasser Hussain believes Joe Root getting a century in Australia should be the next big goal for him in Test cricket, adding that achieving it would give tons of satisfaction to right-handed batter, who recently hit a record 34th ton.
