Virat Kohli Test Retirement: Former Indian team captain and run machine Virat Kohli has reportedly expressed his intention to retire from Test cricket to the Board of Control for Cricket in India ahead of the India vs England Test tour. With this exciting tour starting on June 20, the legendary batsman’s exclusion from Tests has posed a problem for the Indian team and on May 7, 2025, Virat Kohli’s teammate Rohit Sharma also made an important retirement announcement.
According to several reports of Cricket News, Virat Kohli had described this valuable decision during his red-ball cricket. The top BCCI official had contacted this legendary batsman and also urged him to reconsider. This decision of the legendary Virat Kohli is very shocking for many fans. Now the BCCI selection committee will soon meet to plan the team selection for this England tour as two important batsmen of the Indian team have taken retirement.
Virat Kohli Test Retirement: This Great Player Has Played 123 Tests For The Indian Team
Virat Kohli has so far played a total of 123 Tests for the Indian team and has scored a total of 9,230 runs including 30 Brilliant Centuries. This player has been important for the Indian Test team with good leadership and explosive batting, especially overseas.
This batsman had a very poor performance in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, as he managed to score only 190 runs in five Tests. He had a good start with a century in Perth. But he failed in his remaining matches, getting out a total of eight times out of his 10 matches, caught at slip. So right now in the India vs England series, a large number of inexperienced batsmen in the Indian team have retired, due to which a huge responsibility of the Indian team has fallen on the shoulders of Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
