Perhaps the biggest regret for an average Indian fan would be, the retirement of Virat Kohli from Test cricket. From his batch, Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Steve Smith are still active players — doing fairly well. While Root notched his 41st Test ton in the fifth Ashes Test, Smith got to his 37th.
Sanjay Manjrekar takes a dig at Virat Kohli
Now, former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has questioned Virat Kohli’s decision to leave the longest format of the game. In fact, he went on term ODIs as the ‘easiest format’ which he is still playing. “Well, as Joe Root attains new heights in Test cricket, my mind goes to Virat Kohli. He’s walked away from Tests, and it’s unfortunate that in the five years that he struggled before retiring, he didn’t quite put his heart and soul into finding out the problems as to why he was averaging 31 for five years in Tests.
Joe Root scales new heights in Tests. It saddens me that Virat decided to walk away from it. t.co/U0kospRPat
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) January 6, 2026“That is for another time as to what he could have done. But I just feel sad that people like Joe Root and Steve Smith, Kane Williamson are really making a name for themselves in Test Cricket,” Manjrekar said on his Instagram handle. Manjrekar went on to further say, that he would have had no issues if the legend had went on to quit all the three formats.
“It was okay, Virat Kohli just walked away from cricket, retired from all cricket. But that he’s chosen to play one-day cricket actually disappoints me more, because this is a format which, for a top-order batter, I’ve said before as well, is the easiest format.”
“The format that really tests you is first, obviously, Test Cricket, and T20 cricket has its different challenges. The other thing is because he’s so fit, supremely fit, you feel even more that he could have maybe continued his fight, you know, to get back into form, even if he was left out of a series, he could have maybe gone down to first-class cricket, played in Australia, England, more matches in India, tried to make another comeback,” added Manjrekar.
Others from Fab 4 continue to pile runs
Lastly, he also spoke about his disappointment, as all the other three went on to score heavily in Tests, Virat isn’t around anymore. “That could have made me truly happy. Obviously, that’s his call, his choice. But yeah, when Joe Root gets hundreds or gets runs, or Steve Smith, Kane Williamson, my mind goes to Virat Kohli with a sense of disappointment and a little bit of sadness, because he cared so much for Test Cricket, didn’t he?”
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