Former India cricketer Ravi Shastri has revealed the reason Virat Kohli gave him behind his shock retirement from Test cricket.
“I’m walking away with a heart full of gratitude – for the game, for the people I shared the field with, and for every single person who made me feel seen along the way,” Virat Kohli wrote in a post on Instagram.
His former coach, Ravi Shastri, has now revealed his conversation with the star batter before his announcement.
“I did speak to him about it, I think a week before that [his announcement] and his mind was very clear that he’d given us everything,” he said in a recent interview.
Shastri added, “There were no regrets. There were one or two questions I asked, and that’s a personal conversation which, you know, he mentioned very clearly, there were no doubts in his mind, which made me think, ‘Yes, the time is right’. The mind has told his body that it’s time to go.”
The former India cricketer, however, admitted that he was surprised when Virat Kohli told his about his decision.
