Team India talisman batter and Test cricket legend Virat Kohli has on Monday announced his retirement from the longer format with a post on Instagram.
The 36-year-old Kohli will only play in ODIs now, having already retired from T20 Internationals last year.
The India great — contemporary cricket’s version of Cristiano Ronaldo in soccer — put up some staggering numbers across his test career as the beacon of a team followed by 1.4 billion people.
Here’s a flavor of those stats over his 14-year test career:
7 — The number of double-hundreds made by Kohli in tests, the most by an India player and the fourth most in test history. Six of them came in an extraordinary 18-month, 33-innings spell from July 2016 to December 2017 — a period in which he was the No. 1 batter in the format.
46.85 — Kohli’s batting average in tests.
123 — The number of test appearances made by Kohli. He was captain in 68 tests, winning 40 of them — the most for an Indian captain and fourth overall in test cricket.
256 — Kohli’s highest test score, made against South Africa in Pune, India, in October 2019. He finished the innings not out and it was the last of his double centuries.
9,230 — The number of test runs made by Kohli, which ranks him fourth on the all-time list of India players behind fellow greats Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar.
271 — million The number of followers Kohli has on Instagram.
