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Pho­to: In­dia’s Vi­rat Kohli ges­tures to a mem­ber of a crowd dur­ing play on the first day of the fourth crick­et test be­tween Aus­tralia and In­dia at the Mel­bourne Crick­et Ground, Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia, on Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Pho­to/Asan­ka Bren­don Rat­nayake, File)

In­dia great Vi­rat Kohli re­tired from test crick­et Mon­day af­ter play­ing 123 match­es in his glo­ri­ous 14-year red-ball ca­reer.

Kohli made his test de­but in 2011 against West In­dies and has been In­dia’s stand­out bat­ter since Sachin Ten­dulkar’s re­tire­ment in 2013.