Mumbai: A few minutes before the announcement of his retirement from Test cricket on Monday morning, star batter Virat Kohli was seen with his wife and actor Anushka Sharma at Mumbai Airport.
In scenes caught by paps, the couple can be seen engrossed in a chat, but they also smile and wave in shutterbugs.
Virat wore a beige shirt and matching pants, while Anushka looked calm to Uber in a striped pink and blue shirt and baggy jeans.
And just a few minutes after the presence of the airport, Kohli left the fans in shock with the declaration of his retirement from the red-ball cricket format.
Kohli took on his Instagram handle and announced his decision to retire from the longest format of the game.
“It has been 14 years because I first wore Bagi Blue in Test cricket. Honestly, I never imagined the journey that this format will take me. It has tested me, shaped me, and taught me a lesson that I will take for life. Something is personal about playing in the whites. Something deep is personal. Quiet piece, long -term, which is not with you,” who is not with you, ”
“As I am away from this format, it’s not easy – but it seems right. I have given it everything that I had, and it is very much given to me as much as I could expect. I am going away with gratitude -filled heart – for sports, for people, the way I share the field, I think I feel that I am looking for my test career.
In his test career, the 36 -year -old performed 123 in white clothes, scoring an average of 46.85 to score 31 fifty and 254*in 30 centuries and 210 innings.
He is the fourth highest run-run-match in India, behind Sachin Tendulkar (15,921 runs), Rahul Dravid (13,265 runs) and Sunil Gavaskar (10,122 runs). He made his Test debut against the West Indies in June 2011.
While his first Test tour was a great disappointment with just 76 runs in five innings, a young Virat made a name for himself with some serious, counter -attack in the coming days. His rise as a test player began in 2012 with his young woman tonne against Australia in Adelaide, when he scored 116 runs in 213 balls.
In a tour where no other can touch 300 runs for India and veterans like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, and Virender Sehwag saw the shadow of their prominent people, Virat scored the top for India with 300 runs in four tests including a century and fifty.
Between 2011 and 2015, he scored 2,994 runs in 41 tests at an average of 44.03, with 12 centuries and 12 half -centuries in 72 innings.
Between 2016 and 2019, Virat had one of the strongest batting prime for a Test cricketer, scoring 4,208 runs in 43 tests of 66.79, with 10 fifty and 254*best score in 16 centuries and 69 innings.
It also included seven double centuries, which was the highest by a captain in Test cricket history. However, it has not been very good for superstar batsman in the 2020s, which has scored just 2,028 runs in average 39 tests of 30.72, with just three centuries and nine fifty in 69 innings with a fifty.
His number received a great boost in 2023, where he scored 671 runs in eight tests on an average of 55.91, with two centuries and two fifties in 12 innings.
During this entire time limit, Virat struggled with some notable weaknesses in the format, especially against the off-stump line and against delivery against spinners. He ended last year, with just 382 runs in 10 Tests, which was just one century and fifty in 19 innings at a shocking average of 22.47.
His last Test outing was the Border-Gavaskar Trophy tour in Australia since November-January, where he scored just 190 runs in nine innings of 23.75, with a highlight in his century in Perth.
This was his first since July 2023, when he hit a tonne against the West Indies in Port of Spain in 2023. In addition, his last century at home came against Australia during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Ahmedabad in early 2023.
Virat’s career has been about overcoming many failures and taking Indian cricket to a new height. During the Australia Tour in 2014-15, to break an extreme Australian attack led by Mitchell Johnson for 692 runs, including four centuries, to guide India for the ICC World Test Championship Mac, like a dream in 2018, a dream, during a dream, after a five-fifty runs, five fifty runs, after five fifty runs, after five fifty runs. With the Centurion, Melbourne, Perth, Edgbaston and some world -class knock at their home, the 36 -year -old has given tons to fans to play and cherish forever.