Virat Kohli has caused a stir in India and world cricket with his announcement of retirement from test cricket . English Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma having already stepped away from T20 and now Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma both were is kept away from the test cricket . Virat Kohli has wised to retired from test cricket and this info he sends to BCCI but BCCI give him to think about it because it’s comes a very crucial test series against England. In the Monday morning Virat Kohli declared is retirement from test cricket and suddenly all the fans are disappointed with this decision .
Quite a few factors are at play here . When he to over as the captain of Indian team in the middle of a series in Australia in 2014 he was typically in the Indian Navy style thrown in an ocean and was asked to swim through to safety . Such where the challenges He tribes on and he was practically ready for all them . Once he got settled into the role he held series of meeting with the Indian team think tank – the BCCI , the coaches , the chief selectors and senior players to strategies and chart of course to make India the number one test team in the world .
There was particular emphasis on the bowlers and he wanted certain type of them so that he can win test overseas . this was a big challenge and he was willing to accept them . He wanted to be pushed into a corner but he wanted to make India great and make India great against in test . for 3 years in a raw India won the ICC World test match in 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . There were also win overseas ( twice in Australia ) once in England ( the series leter got drawn after India played the kovid affected 5th test a year leter ) and he had come close to beating South Africa in south africa .
But for the last 3 years , his performance graph started dipping – just 93 run in 3 home test against New Zealand late last year and 190 runs in the five away test in the BGT series in Australia . Since 2022 , in 37 test he has managed 1990 runs at an average of just about 32 . He was pelling pe below the highest standards he had set for himself . That was not acceptable to him .
Who comes after Kohli
Rishabh pant is an option for the captaincy but the selectors are believed to have zero in on Gill for the role . Question is who will bat at number 4 ? Fun would have been an option but the talk is that the selectors are looking for a new opener to partner Yajaswi Jaiswal . If the succeed then kill Rahul would bad at Number 3 and gill at number 4 or the other way round . These are important decision to be made by the BCCI before the announcement of squad likely on May 2023 .
Meanwhile word from England is that Ben stocks and his team are preparing intensely for the upcoming 5 test marquee series , while the Indian player remained engaged in the IPL . A training camp in Loughborough is set to begin this week , followed by a forth day test against Zimbabwe starting next Thursday at Trent Bridge . The new Indian captain could find himself thrown in at the Deep end out and ocean like Kohli was . Will he rise to this challenge ?
