Cricket
Farewell Virat Kohli, Test cricket’s great emperor reveals a truth about Indian cricket
And so another of the great emperors of cricket abdicates. News of Virat Kohli’s retirement arrived on Monday morning not with the fanfare and ceremony that might usually accompany such an announcement but with a conflicting sigh of expectation and disappointment, an acknowledgement that the end had long been near. There was to be no stage-managed farewell like that enjoyed by Sachin Tendulkar, no last Indian summer in England or valedictory bow, just a few days of speculation and a social media statement to proclaim the end of an era.
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