Virat Kohli said at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) who wishes to retire from the test cricket before the series of this summer in England, understands Sky Sports News.
BCCI refused to comment when he was approached by Sky Sports News but did not contest that Kohli had informed them of his retirement plans.
It is understood that the 36-year-old told the chief selector Ajit Agarkar in April of his desire to move away before the start of the World Test World Championship 2025-2027 in June.
Kohli scored 30 tests for India
Agarkar and another BCCI official are ready to meet Kohli again, but those plans are in limbo because of the growing tensions on the border with India-Pakistan with the government that tells citizens not to travel among the cities.
India will face Ben Stokes’s team in five games, all in life Sky SportsStarting from Headingley on June 20 and ending at Kia Oval from 31 July.
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- First test: Friday 20 June -Tuesday June 24 – Headingley
- Second test: Wednesday 2 – Domenica July 6 July – Edgbaston
- Third test: Thursday 10 July 14 July – Lord’s
- Fourth test: Wednesday 23 – Domenica 27 July – Emirates Old Trafford
- Fifth Test: Thursday 31 July 4 August – The Kia Oval
Kohli scored over 50 on average in the trial cricket before 2020, but his returns have been more recently
Kohli to follow Rohit in Test retirement?
Kohli scored 9,230 points, including 30 hundred and 31st century, with an average of 46.85 in its 123 tests, 68 games of which they were captain.
The batter has an average of an average of 32 years in the test cricket in the last two years and its century against Australia last November was its first since July 2023.
Kohli has accumulated over 9,000 runs during his 123 test
However, India had allocated Kohli’s experience as a key against England, in particular with Captain Rohit Sharma who had just withdrawn from the test cricket.
A source referred to Sky Sports News that Kohli informed the Bcci of his plans before Rohit retired, but he feels that it is the right time to get away.
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Michael Atherton says that the captain of India Rohit Sharma retired from the trial cricket was not a surprise after his struggles with the club and defeat of his team in Australia.
Shubman Gill is the frontrunner to replace Rohit as a skipper, even if the star player Jasprit Bumrah is the deputy captain and stopped for Rohit in Australia when he lost the first test on his paternity leave and dropped for the fifth.
Kohli and Rohit retired from the international cricket T20 after the victory of the T20 World Cup in India in the western Indies last summer and if the first joins the latter also in the cricket to stop tests, they will only be available for the international days of a day.
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