India legend Virat Kohli shocked the fans by announcing his retirement from the Test cricket. Made famous by his love of the longest and purest version of the game, Kohli’s choice understandably left people stunned. Even though there were rumours of his retirement, Kohli announced it through Instagram. India former-bowling coach Bharat Arun credited Kohli and said that the Indian cricket will him and his persona. He also came out stating that Kohli never enjoyed practise matches because for him, they lacked the intensity.
Bharat Arun’s Statement
“He never liked practice matches. He always felt the intensity was somehow missing and never really enjoyed practice games. Instead, he would want to spend more time at the nets and would always choose the spiciest wicket and get bowlers to bowl at him from 16 yards — or take throw downs from 16 yards. The fact is — he always needed a challenge. That’s what got him going,” he said.
“Virat had just scored a fantastic hundred at Perth but we did not win that match,” he said.
“Going into Melbourne, it was Virat who literally changed the dressing room mindset. He made everyone believe that we could do it and went about his business as leader in a manner unrivalled.”
Virat Kohli’s Test Cricket Stats
At the same time, being one of the most respected personalities of modern test cricket, Virat Kohli also introduced his trustworthiness and authority – in the form of his unsurpassed batting in the test format. In 123 innings that he played in test cricket, Kohli has managed to score 9230 runs that worked out to make 46.85 and 55.57 as an average and strike rate respectively. The mammoth innings of 254 not out by Kohli is an indication that he can turn early brilliance into meaningful tallies. With his 30 centuries and 31 half centuries, Kohli comes visible in the order of India’s batting set up where his agility and durability is on display against top quality English seam attacks.
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