“I am not surprised” - Sunil Gavaskar on Virat Kohli’s retirement from Tests

Former Indian batter and commentator Sunil Gavaskar isn’t surprised to see Virat Kohli's retirement from the longest format of the game. Gavaskar felt that after a mediocre Australia series, he expected Rohit and Kohli to come up with a big call.

Interestingly, both Kohli and Rohit had an unimpressive Australia series. A lot of people in the cricketing fraternity raised questions on the duo’s place in the playing XI. Barring a century in the first Test in Perth, Kohli failed to live up to expectations in the remaining games.

"To play or not play is an individual decision. But I'm not surprised because I thought after what happened in Australia, there were going to be massive changes. So I'm not surprised he decided to call it a day," Gavaskar said as quoted by India Today.

On the other hand, Rohit managed to score just 36 runs across three Tests before dropping himself from the team for the last game of the series in Sydney. Meanwhile, Gavaskar said the selection committee and the BCCI top officials would have discussed plans for the next cycle of the World Test Championship with the duo.

"That's exactly what would have happened. There would have been discussions and conversations with them. They would have had talks with the selectors, chairman of selectors and senior board officials. That's why I said this was not a surprise, at least not to me,” he added.

"Definitely, there would have been conversations with both of them because the one thing nobody would have wanted to see was them being dropped from the team. Nobody would have wanted that,” he stated.

"For both these wonderful cricketers to go out on their own terms is what everybody wanted. They have gone out after telling the world they have had enough," he concluded.

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