Virat Kohli Walks Away, Taking a Piece of Test Cricket’s Soul As India Loses Its Lionheart (Credit: X)
We were no longer playing for a draw or a Respectable loss, but to win in places like australia, england, and south Africa. While Former India Captain Sourv Ganguly Had Sown The Seed in His Tenure to Win Overseas, it kind of faded away in better in 2011 after 2011. (2011), A 4-0 Loss in Australia (2011-12), A 1-0 Loss in South Africa (2013-14), A 1-0 Loss in New Zealand (2013-14), A 3-1 Loss in England (2014), A 2-0 Loss in Australia (2014-15) Before Winning 2- 2016.
Kohli became the captain of India’s Test Team in 2014 in the series against Australia, which India went on to lose 2-0, but not before giving a real scare in adelaide. It was merely the first flicker of a story waiting to unfold. India Played a one-off test match against bangladesh in 2015 that ended in a draw, following which India celebrated nine culture test series Wins from 2015 to 2018, Including the Test Series West Indians.
India Lost the Test Series Against South Africa in 2018, but not before coming back with a win, a rare phenomenon in Indian cricket. Out of the five test matches that India won in south Africa, two have come in kohli’s captaincy – a place where India are couple to win a test series. He remains the only captain with two back-to-back test series Wins against AGAINST Australia in Australia-as Big an achievement as any.
When Test Cricket was going through the motions, kohli breathed life back into it with fire, Flair, and ferocity, clubbed with passion and purpose. The energy that he brought to the field, turning test cricket into a spectacle, keeping it at the pinnacle of all forms, pulling crawds back to the stadium globally, Wine in Indian Cricket’s Folklore. With kohli calling time on his red-ball career, test cricket, perhaps, as it sinks in, will die the exit of its brightest flame, leaving India bereft of its lionheart. After all, Nobody Embodized Modern India Better Than Kohli – Bold, Measured, and Forever Uncommerising.
