Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket on Monday, causing curtains to come down in a 14 -year career in whites. The decision to retire comes before India’s five-observer tour of England, which begins in Headingley on 20 June. This will mark the beginning of the next cycle World test championship,Kohli’s retirement does not come for a long time when his long -time partner Rohit Sharma declared his retirement from whites. This means that India will go to the next WTC cycle with a new batting order and its two most experienced leaders in a decade.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!In his 14 -year Test career, which began with a debut against the West Indies in Kingston in June 2011, Kohli scored 9230 runs in 123 matches and scored 30 centuries and 31 fifty decade with an average 46.85.
He also comes out as India’s most successful Test captain, who has won 40 out of 68 Tests with Armband.Between 2016 and 2019, Virat experienced one of his most virtuous periods in Test cricket, scoring 4,208 runs in 43 matches in 43 matches at an impressive average of 66.79. During this stretch, he scored 16 centuries and 10 half -centuries in 69 innings, strengthening his position as one of the major ambassadors of the game in the format.However, the superstar batsman is less notable in the 2020s. He has scored only 2,028 runs in 39 tests, with a minor average of 30.72, including just three centuries and nine half -centuries in 69 innings.A minor revival in his form was observed in 2023, when he scored 671 runs in an average of 55.91, with two half -centuries in two centuries and 12 innings.Last year, his performance was again submerged, scored just 382 runs in 10 tests in total, at an average of 22.47, with one century and one fifty in 19 innings. His most recent test appearance was during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia from November to January, where he scored 190 runs in nine innings of 23.75, highlighted in a century in Perth in a century since 2023, when he hit against the West Indies in Spain’s port.Additionally, he has so far scored a domestic century since his 2023 knock against Australia during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Ahmedabad.Virat Kohli Statistics In Test cricket
- Match: 123
- Innings: 210
- Run: 9230
- The highest score: 254*
- Average: 46.85
- Strike Rate: 55.57
- 100s: 30
- 50s: 31
Virat Kohli milestone in Test cricket9230 – 19th most runs in a test career68 – Graeme Smith (109), Alan Border (93), Stephen Fleming (80), Ricky Ponting (77), Clive Lloyd (74) followed by the sixth highest match as Test Captain.692 runs – Kohli scored 692 runs in Australia’s India Tour in 2014-15. This test is the 40th highest in history1322 – Kohli scored 1322 runs during the 2018 calendar year. The most scored by Mohammad Yusuf (1788 in 2006)2-Kohli had the second largest hundreds of hundreds in a series (India vs Sri Lanka in 2017-18)4-Kohli had the second highest number of hundreds of one series (India in Australia in 2014-15)
