Sydney,May 13: Virat Kohli has retired from Test cricket. He said goodbye to this format through social media on Monday. Kohli has scored runs in every corner of the world, but his rivalry with Australia has been special. Kohli has especially scored a lot of runs in Australia. This is the reason that whenever there is a series there, the Australian media promotes Kohli’s name. The media there also praises him a lot. Now after his retirement from Test, all the newspapers of Australia have praised him. Not only this, the female journalist with whom he had a fight over a photo at Melbourne Airport has herself posted a message of good wishes to Kohli.
Kohli dominates Australian media
Indian star batsman Virat Kohli has achieved greatness with his brilliant performance in Australia and now he will not be able to trouble their bowlers by wearing a white jersey. The Australian media will definitely be happy with this. On Monday, when Kohli bid farewell to his illustrious Test career, Australia’s leading newspaper ‘Daily Sydney Morning Herald’ said about this Indian icon, ‘Australians were attracted by Kohli’s combination of incredible batting skills and fiery attitude on the field, due to which many saw a reflection of themselves in him.’
Australian fans love Kohli’s rivalry
The newspaper wrote, ‘Kohli’s first series in Australia was in 2011-12 in which the performance of the Michael Clarke-led team was one-sided. Despite the 4-0 scoreline, Kohli showed more fearlessness than many contemporaries and ended it with a century in Adelaide. He was also criticized for showing the finger to the SCG audience. This was the beginning of a fight with the Australian audience which ended on his last day as a Test cricketer in January this year when he made a ‘sandpaper’ gesture to the same crowd.’
Also reminded of historic victory
The ‘Australian Broadcasting Corporation’ (ABC) highlighted his successful tenure as India’s Test captain, which also included a historic series win in Australia. ABC wrote, ‘His Test career will also be remembered for his tenure as captain between 2014 and 2022, in which he won 40 out of 68 Test matches and became the country’s most successful captain in this format and ranked fourth in terms of victory after South Africa’s Graeme Smith (53) and Australia’s Ricky Ponting (48) and Steve Waugh (41).’ The headline of the news published in ‘News.com.au’ was ‘Virat Kohli broke 1.4 billion hearts by announcing retirement’. At the same time, ‘Fox Sports’ wrote that the absence of Kohli and Rohit Sharma will leave a void in the Indian batting line-up.
Female journalist also congratulated Kohli
On India’s recent tour of Australia, Kohli clashed with female journalist Nate Yoannidis at Melbourne Airport. Australian journalists were trying to take pictures of Kohli’s children without his permission. Kohli likes to keep his personal life away from the limelight. This is the reason why he has asked journalists many times to stay away from children Vamika and Akay. He got angry after seeing journalists taking pictures in Melbourne. Now Nat has shared a picture of the same dispute with him in Instagram story. Its caption read – Virat, congratulations to you for a great Test career.
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