“If you told me I had to walk away from this game tomorrow, I can walk away without any regrets” - Virat Kohli’s old video resurfaces

With the reports of Virat Kohli’s Test retirement surfacing across the internet, an old video of the Indian talismanic batter has gone viral on the web, where he was seen talking about the importance of Test cricket in his life.

Notably, Kohli has an impressive Test record in 123 matches, accumulating 9230 runs. However, his timing of retirement didn’t go down well with the Indian cricketing fraternity and former cricketers.

With the Indian team scheduled to take on England away from home in a five-match Test series from June to August, BCCI requested Kohli to reconsider his decision and come up with an ultimate call before the selection committee reveals the squad for the tour.

"You need to be honest with yourself. I mean, you know, Test cricket is tough. I mean, even when you're one of the top teams in the world or probably the best test team in the world over the last few years, you can still go into a space where you probably don't want it. You know, at certain stages, you feel like, for five days, do I want to do this again? So you really need to be absolutely honest with yourself. Are you ready for the hard grind? Are you ready to wake up on day three when things are absolutely stacked up against you, when you know that you are in trouble? You know, as a batting unit, are you going out there to get that 100 or get that 150 for your team? You know it's going to be tough. You probably have to do it for five, six hours over a period of two days. Are you strong enough to do that? If you told me I had to walk away from this game tomorrow, I can walk away without any regrets," Kohli had said on Sky Sports in the old video.

"The reason why I reach out to these guys is because I don't want them to waste months and years of my life that I wasted as a youngster still trying to figure things out when I found out the formula for success and what it means to compete at this level," he added.

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