Reason Behind Virat Kohli Sudden Retirement from Tests; Recent Poor Form, Coach Gambhir or somenting Else? – Amar Ujala Hindi News Live

Virat Kohli has retired from Test cricket. He gave this information to the world by posting on Instagram on Monday. Kohli’s sudden decision shocked the world. It is being told that Kohli had informed the BCCI in April itself. However, the board asked him to reconsider his decision.

The board wanted 36 -year -old Kohli to go with the team on a tour of England, but this legendary batsman had made up his mind to say goodbye to the longest format. Earlier on Wednesday, Rohit Sharma also retired from Test cricket. Indian cricket fans are shocked by the sudden decision taken by these two. What happened that forced Kohli to retire, let’s know …

Bad form recently

Kohli’s performance was very poor in the last two Test series and Team India suffered a shameful defeat in both these series. New Zealand came to India last year and made Team India a clean sweep 3–0 in the three-match Test series. In this series, Kohli scored 93 runs in six innings of three matches at an average of 15.50. At the same time, on the tour of Australia, Kohli was able to score 190 runs in nine innings of five matches. This includes a century. Kohli scored a century in the first Test in Perth. After this, he could score only 90 runs in eight innings. Kohli was dismissed eight times and seven times he was dismissed by tampering on the ball going out of the off stump. Maybe these two Test series may have forced Kohli to think that his time has come. Kohli likes to score runs in Australia, but after failing on the last tour, he thought of putting a stop to Test career after and after criticism. If Kohli scored runs on Australia tour, he might have considered for the tour of England, but it could not happen.

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Fans pressure

In 2012-13, when there was a change in the Indian Test, veteran players like Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid said goodbye to cricket. At that time, Virat Kohli had created confidence of victory on his own. On the tour of Australia and then in South Africa, he played many magnificent innings, which raised confidence in the minds of Indian fans. The fans felt that the Indian middle order had got a new star who has the ability to turn the match on its own. He scored several centuries one after the other. When he came to bat, the whole country was confident that this batsman would do something. With this pressure, he played 14 years Test, but recently he said that it was not so easy. Recently, in RCB’s podcast, he made a statement that the fans always expected from him. He never found himself free from this pressure. Whenever he used to bat poorly, he felt that all the fans were eyeing him. He was getting upset with this and thought that it was more important to be happy. Because of this, he also left the captaincy of the Indian team. This can also be a reason behind retirement.

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New players opportunity in new cycle

The drought round with Kohli’s bat started in the year 2020. After this, he could not score a century in any format for about three consecutive years. This was the worst phase of his career. He increased the burden on him and left the captaincy and tried to focus on batting. Kohli recently told in podcast, ‘If the captaincy was not struggling, he was struggling in batting. I used to think about it all the time. It had become very difficult for me and finally it dominated me a lot. ‘ After leaving the Test captaincy in 2022, Kohli also took a break from cricket for a long time and did not touch the bat at all. He said that there was a time in his life when he was struggling to be happy in personal life. However, he scored a century against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup T20 in 2022 and made a comeback. After this, his form in ODIs and T20 was excellent, but he was questioned in the Test. Last year, Kohli would have thought of giving new players a chance after not scoring runs on the bat on New Zealand and then Australia tour. India’s new World Test Championship cycle is starting from the tour of England next month and Kohli would have felt that new players cannot have a good opportunity to give a chance and freeze.

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Is coach Gambhir or Rohit’s retirement?

As soon as Kohli left the captaincy, the term of Ravi Shastri, who was a coach, was over. After this, Rahul Dravid became the coach and Kohli told how Dravid helped him in difficult times. Then Kohli also got a lot of support from Rohit Sharma, who was captain. However, after Rohit’s sudden retirement, Kohli would have been the only veteran in the team and perhaps like Rohit, he too would have found the best phase of change. After Gambhir became a coach, many such speculations were made that what will happen to Kohli now, because Gambhir is not hidden from anyone. However, Gambhir always supported Kohli and said that as long as he (Rohit and Virat) players can play till they want to play. However, there was also talk of rift between Rohit and Gambhir on the tour of Australia. How much truth was there in this could not be confirmed, but Gambhir was quite confident about Kohli. Pictures of friendship and laughter jokes also came out between the two. In such a situation, coach, including the board, Gambhir and team management would also want to play Test cricket for some time, but Kohli decided to end it. Now he will be seen playing only in ODIs. In media reports, these things are also coming out that both Kohli and Rohit have a plan to play 2027 ODI World Cup, but till then no one knows.

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