Virat Kohli Retirement: A new turn in Virat Kohli’s retirement case, will make a panic in Indian cricket

New Delhi: On May 12, millions of people have reacted on Virat Kohli’s retirement photo posted on Instagram on May 12, but no one knows why this sun of Indian cricket has set so soon? Not only fans but BCCI and selectors are also surprised by Kohli’s decision. In such a situation, the decision of his retirement a few days before the England Test tour has given rise to many speculation.

Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif believes that Kohli did not get support from Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee, which expressed concern about his recent form and questioned his place in the test line-up. Kaif said that after returning from Australia tour, playing in the Ranji Trophy tells that Virat did not want to leave the test so soon.

‘I think he wanted to continue playing in this format. There would have been some internal conversation with the BCCI, the selectors must have cited his performance in the last 5-6 years and would have told that it is no longer in the team. We will never know what happened, it is very difficult to guess what exactly happened behind the curtain. But after playing the Ranji Trophy in view of the last minute’s decision, I definitely feel that he wanted to go on the upcoming Test tour. Due to developments in the last few weeks, he did not get the support from the BCCI and the selectors that he expected.

Australia tour was decisive
The form of 36 -year -old Kohli has fallen in the last five years. His bat scored only 2028 runs with three centuries in 68 innings. The struggle also dropped his career average to 46. Kohli indicated a return to Australia tour, where he scored a brilliant century in the first Test played in Perth on November 2024. But after that only 90 runs in the tour were able to score and India lost 1-3.

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‘Kohli appeared in a hurry to score runs in Australia’
Kaif feels that what happened to Kohli in Australia went to him. He says, ‘He appeared in a hurry to score runs in the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. In Test cricket, you have to stay on the field for hours and work hard, which they have done earlier, but while trying to drive, the ball took the outer edge of the bat, taking backwards to the lack of patience. Perhaps he was wondering what I am in the last phase of my career, so what is meant to make a brilliant century, earlier he used to show different kinds of patience, he used to leave the balls. Used to take his time, tired the bowlers and then drop them down, but I did not see it in Australia.