Former India men’s team fielding coach R. Sridhar said that he was shaken-shown on Virat Kohli, who was suddenly declared his retirement from Test cricket. Sridhar said that he was lucky in the national set-up when Kohli was the Test captain of India from 2015 to 2021, and eventually became the country’s most successful captain in the long format. In an Instagram post on Monday, Kohli announced that he would retired from tests with immediate effect, ending a 14 -year career in 123 matches, which includes 30 hundreds of matches and 31 fifty in 9,230 matches at an average of 46.85 and not the highest score of 254 with 31 fifty.
“Who can forget the famous quotation he said at Lord’s, ‘Let them give them a 60-hour hell’. I am shell-shown to be very honest on the sudden declaration of retirement retirement by Virat Kohli.
In a video posted on the Instagram account of Coaching Beyond on Wednesday, Sridhar said in a video, “I have been completely lucky in my captaincy tenure, and what I saw was nothing, but passion, perseverance, will, willingness, honesty and fearlessness with which they pursued Indian cricket.”
Under Kohli, India had a record of 40 wins and 17 defeats in 68 matches, and the first Test series of the side in Australia in 2018/19. After a 2–1 series defeat in South Africa, Kohli stepped as a Test skipper in early 2022.
Over the years, Kohli had struggled to score continuously in tests, as it was seen scoring only 190 runs in nine innings of the 2024/25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, which India lost 3–1. Sridhar, currently leading the ten -day fielding camp for Sri Lanka national teams in Colombo, further stated that retirement from Kohli’s format is a huge disadvantage to this aspect, which has a five -match tour of England from 20 June.
“Regarding his captaincy, I think his intensity, his aggression and his ability to use the bowlers to the great impact. Since he captured the captaincy in 2015, I am very grateful that I was looking at it with a close quarters. The way he changed the culture with fitness and fielding, he changed the culture with the way he changed the culture – five bowlers and the culture again – the five bowlers and the batsmen again. Gave time and time.
“After this, India never looked back as a Test-playing nation. Learning to learn what the young cricketers had, while it was there in the change room, which cannot be replaced with anything. So I think it is a big loss for Indian cricket.
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