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Indian batter Virat Kohli has retired from Test cricket. He informed about this on Instagram. Border- Virat’s performance in the Gavaskar series was not better. He scored in this series at an average of 23.75. At the same time, 7 out of 8 were dismissed on the ball outside the off stump. In BGT, Kohli scored 190 runs in 9 innings with an unbeaten century.
In the last 5 years, he scored only 3 centuries in 37 Tests and has been below an average of 35. Earlier, Kohli retired from T20 cricket, but he was in tremendous form in IPL 2025. He has scored 505 runs in 11 matches so far.
Earlier, Virat Kohli had expressed his desire to retire from Test cricket. He had given this information to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) earlier, however, BCCI asked him to reconsider his decision. Virat retired after winning the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Rohit and Kohli were better captain than Dhoni in Tests Rohit Sharma and Mahendra Singh Dhoni are captains to get India the ICC Trophy. On the other hand, Virat Kohli is. He could never win the ICC tournament as captain. However, when the discussion is of Test cricket, he looks miles ahead of both Dhoni and Rohit as a leader. India won all the 11 series in the house under the captaincy of both Dhoni and Rohit, India lost in the Test series in the house. Under the captaincy of Rohit, Team India has also suffered a clean sweep from New Zealand. This has never happened under Kohli’s captaincy. He captained Team India in the 11 Test series on India’s land. India won all 11 series. Kohli captained the home ground for the first time against South Africa in 2015. India won the 4-Test series 3–0 with Ashwin and Jadeja’s support and Kohli’s attacking field strategy. From here, the team won all Test series at home under Kohli’s captaincy.
Kohli has also scored 7 double centuries under captaincy Batter Virat Kohli gave his best performance in the presence of every captain, but when he himself became the captain, he turned all the deficiencies of Test batting into achievements. Kohli scored a record 7 double centuries under his captaincy. Kohli could not be special on the tour of England in 2014, but in 2018 he turned it back and became the top run scorer of the series. In Australia, he scored every time, he also put a century in South Africa and explained why ICC had chosen him the best cricketer of decade in 2020.
Kohli has scored the most centuries in Test career in the country Kohli has scored 30 centuries in Tests. Of this, the maximum number of 14 centuries have been scored in India. He has scored only one century in New Zealand.
