The article first appeared on The Indian Express on May 13, 2025.
Even as the absence of Virat Kohli, the batsman, will be rued in the immediacy of his retirement, what he did as a captain for Test cricket in India shouldn’t be ignored. When M S Dhoni retired from Test cricket in 2014, the sudden manner of his announcement, perhaps, had led to mythmaking — of how he selflessly walked away from it. However, in the 2011-12 tour of Australia that had followed a listless tour of England, the rot and the drift had set in.
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