“Congratulations on a phenomenal test career, Virat Kohli. As captain, you didn’t just win matches — you changed mindsets. You made fitness, aggression, and pride in whites the new standard. A true torchbearer of modern Indian test cricket” – former India allrounder Irfan Pathan.

Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from Test cricket, bringing the curtain down on a career that spanned 14 years and included 123 Tests - 68 of them as captain - in which he scored 9230 runs at an average of 46.