Virat Kohli stepped down as captain of the Indian Test cricket team on January 15, 2022. His reign as Test captain began in early 2015 after former cricketer MS Dhoni steped retired. Kohli is the most successful Test captain.

There has been some politics going around with captaincy of the Indian cricket team for a while now. Where BCCI president Sourav Ganguly claimed that the board asked Kohli to reconsider his decision, the former skipper straight up contradicted him. In December, 2021, Kohli was removed as the ODI captain. He shared that there was no prior communication before, and he received the information merely 90 minutes before the selection meeting.

From cricket fanatics and Kohli fans, to cricketers and celebrities, everyone is deeply shaken and saddened by this latest captaincy update. Twitter is flooding with such reactions. People like Ravi Shastri, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Rao, among many others, have expressed their unhappiness.

Ravi Shastri, former head coach of the Indian national cricket team posted a picture on his Twitter handle. In the tweet with the former skipper in frame with him, Shastri told Kohli that he should leave with his head high, because only a few captains have achieved what he has. He also added that Kohli is, without a doubt, India’s most aggressive and successful. He expressed his sorrow, and called it a grave loss for himself and the team that they built together.

Kohli’s fellow cricketer Mohammad Shami also tweeted to pay his respects to Kohli’s captaincy. He referred to Kohli as the epitome of leadership and the man who galvanized a team to win overseas. He further congratulated his former captain on having a brilliant run as the captain of Team India.

Former Captain Virat Kohli took to his Twitter and Instagram handles to make the officially announce his decision to quit as Test captain for team India.

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