New Delhi: Just a year ago, Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket by surprising everyone. The day was May 12. The cricket world is buzzing with speculations of Virat Kohli’s Test comeback exactly a year after that.

There have been several speculations surrounding Kohli’s Test comeback in the recent past. Kohli fans have repeatedly requested him to return to red ball international cricket. Kohli himself has expressed his love for Test cricket on several occasions, even being heard to refer to ‘King Kohli’ after winning his first IPL title after 18 years. IPL The joy of winning is playing Test cricket. Test match wins are several levels below.

Such is Kohli’s love for Test cricket that has repeatedly fueled speculation of his Test comeback. Kohli himself, however, never opened his mouth about this. However, a recent comment by Kohli’s childhood coach has fueled speculation about his Test comeback. A recent video of Kohli’s childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma has gone viral on social media. In the video, Rajkumar Sharma can be heard saying, ‘Since Virat listens to me, many people have asked me to talk him back into Test cricket. We are also talking about this, let’s see what happens.’

Kohli made his international Test debut against West Indies in 2011. Virat Kohli has played 123 Test matches in his illustrious 14-year career. He ended his career as the fourth highest Test run-scorer in the history of the Indian team with 9230 runs in that hundred matches. Test captain Virat’s record is also enviable. From 2014 to 2022, Kohli captained the Indian team in Tests for a total of eight years. With 60 matches as captain, he won most Test matches as an Indian.

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However, the Indian star batsman has struggled with form towards the end of his Test career. Kohli scored 190 runs in the last nine innings. But the bulk of those runs came in one innings. He scored a century in the second innings of the first Test against Australia at Perth. But his failure as a batter in that series Indian teamSpeculations of a change in Tests were rife after his disappointing performance. Finally in that Australia series Kohli) came to an end in Test cricket. But this time after a year of retirement, strong speculations about his Test return started.