Virat Kohli: India great tells BCCI he wants to retire from Test cricket ahead of England series | Cricket News

Verat Kohli has told the cricket Game of India (BCCI) that he wanted to retire from the cricket test before this summer series in England, as Sky Sports News understands.

BCCI refused to comment when approaching Sky Sports News, but he did not oppose that Kohli informed them of his retirement plans.

It is understood that 36-year-old told Ajet Ajarcar’s chiefs in April of his desire to get away before the start of the World Championship tournament from 2025-2027 in June.

Agarkar and another BCCI official will meet again, but these plans are forgetful due to the escalation of tensions on the Indian Pakistani border, where the government tells the citizens not to travel between cities.

India will face the Ben Stock team in England in five test matches, all of which are live Sky SportsStarting with Hiddingli in Leeds on June 20, and concluded in Kia Oval, London, as of July 31.

England test schedule against India

All games at 11 am in the United Kingdom and Ireland; All of them live on Sky Sports

• The first test: Friday, June 20 – June 24 – Hideengley
• The second test: Wednesday 2 July – July 6 – Edgbaston
• The third test: Thursday, July 10 – July 14 – Lord
• Fourth test: Wednesday 23 – July 27 – UAE Old Trafford
• Fifth test: Thursday, July 31 – August 4 – Kia Owfal

Kohli to follow Rohit in the retirement test?

Kohli scored 9,230 runs, including 30 hundred and 31 tablets, at a rate of 46.85 in his tests 123, 68 of which were as a leader.

The average number of mixture was only more than 32 years old to test the cricket game in the past two years, and its horn against Australia last November was the first since July 2023.

In the Australia series, average is 23.75 in five tests.

However, India has allocated the Kohli experience as a key against England, especially with Captain Rohit Sharma’s retirement from just a cricket test itself.

A source told Sky Sports News that Kohli informed BCCI of his plans before Rohit’s retirement, but he feels it’s time to move away.

Shubman Gill is the candidate that replaces Rohit as a leader, although Seam Bowler Jasprit Bumrah is the team leader and stood in Rohit in Australia when he missed the first test on paternity vacation and dropped himself for the fifth.

Kohli and Rohit from T20 International Cricket after winning the World Cup in India in the West Indies last summer, and if the first is joining the latter in quitting experimental crickets, they will only be available to go ahead in one day to move forward.

Kohli Part of the Fab Four Crick fighters “Fab Four”

Kolhi was part of the “Fab Four” Cricket fighters alongside Joe Root in England, Steve Smith in Australia and Kane Williamson from New Zealand, but it could now be the first to stop testing.

The Indian has the lowest average and record the lowest number of group test operations.

How did Kohli achieve England?

Kohli 1096 scored in 17 test matches in England, at a rate of 33.21 on average.

Fifteen of these matches faced England, with other World Championships for Test against New Zealand (in Southampton in 2021) and Australia (at Kia OVAL in 2023).

Kohli achieved only 134 races in 10 roles in his first experimental tour in England in 2014, where he scored 39 years, but he admired after four years, increasing 583 on average 59.30.

In the 2018 series – in which the top scorer was on both sides – Kohli hit two hundred, in Edgbaston, Trent Bridge, and two of the other fifties.

The mixture hit a few semi -years in the 2021 series, in Hideengley and Kia Ofal, while the final test roles in England seem likely to be 49 he made against Australia in the last World Championship in June 2023, in The OVAL.

Kohli captain

As the leader of the India test between 2015 and 2022, Kohli won 40 out of 68 matches, lost 17 years and drawing 11.

This makes him the fourth most successful captain in the history of men’s testing in terms of the victory of the matches, only Grame Smith from South Africa (53 victories in 109 tests) and the Australian duo Ricky Poning (48 in 77) and Steve Woo (41 in 57).

Kohli was an essential role in India, as it focused on a test cricket, with a strong focus on fitness.

He always cut off an emotional presence and drawings in this field – the features that continued after handing over to Rohit.

Kohli’s prominent victory, which included his team captain leading his team to win the first series in Australia in 2018-19.