{"id":176136,"date":"2025-06-11T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176136\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:40:10","slug":"virat-kohli-could-have-been-handled-better-ravi-shastris-emotional-hard-hitting-take-on-retirement-watch-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176136\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Virat Kohli could have been handled better&#8217;: Ravi Shastri&#8217;s emotional, hard-hitting take on retirement &#8211; WATCH | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/121781736.jpg\" alt=\"'Virat Kohli could have been handled better': Ravi Shastri's emotional, hard-hitting take on retirement - WATCH\" title=\"Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli (PTI Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ravi-shastri\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravi Shastri<\/a> got emotional on Wednesday while reflecting on <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virat Kohli<\/a>\u2019s retirement from Test cricket. Shastri, who shared a successful tenure with Kohli during his captaincy, witnessing several memorable series wins, said the star batter&#8217;s exit could have been managed more thoughtfully.Kohli, who made his Test debut against the West Indies in 2011, announced his retirement from the longest format ahead of the England tour. He finishes with 9,230 runs at an average of 46.85 from 123 Tests, including 30 centuries and 31 fifties, making him India\u2019s fourth-highest run-scorer in the format.&#8221;Virat has announced his retirement from Test matches, which is sad, you know, because he&#8217;s a great player. A great player. It&#8217;s only when you go that people truly realise how big a player you were. Stats don\u2019t do justice \u2014 it\u2019s about the way he carried himself, especially as an ambassador for Test match cricket, particularly overseas. The way he played at Lord\u2019s, and how his team turned things around \u2014 it was unreal. And I\u2019m glad I was a part of it,&#8221; Shastri said this while speaking on Sony Sports Network\u2019s program \u2018Bharat Tum Chale Chalo: Kahani 21-22 Ki\u2019.&#8221;I feel sad that he&#8217;s gone the way he has \u2014 suddenly. I think it could have been handled better, maybe with more communication. If I had anything to do with it, I would\u2019ve made him captain straight after Australia,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Virat Kohli retires from Test cricket after 14 years<\/p>\n<p>Kohli remains India\u2019s most successful Test captain, having led the team to 40 wins in 68 matches. His tenure was defined by a strong pace attack, a commitment to fitness, and a combative brand of cricket that made India a dominant force across conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India head coach Ravi Shastri got emotional on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,50335,46269,10791,79,16,15,4221,42878,44569],"class_list":{"0":"post-176136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-ind-vs-eng","10":"tag-india-vs-england","11":"tag-ravi-shastri","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-virat-kohli","16":"tag-virat-kohli-retirement","17":"tag-virat-kohli-retires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114665725845395195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}