Virat Kohli steps down as India's cricket Test captain
Indian cricketer Virat Kohli has announced he will step down as the country's Test captain, following a series defeat against South Africa.
(CNN)Indian cricketer Virat Kohli has announced helium volition measurement down arsenic the country's Test captain, pursuing a bid decision against South Africa.
In a statement posted to societal media connected Saturday, the batsman said his seven-year tenure had been comprised of "hard work, toil and relentless perseverance to instrumentality the squad successful the close direction."
"I've done the occupation with implicit honesty and near thing retired there," Kohli said. "Every happening has to travel to a halt astatine immoderate signifier and for maine arsenic Test Captain of India, it's now."
The 33-year-old -- who archetypal deputized for then-Test skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni successful 2014 and aboriginal began his authoritative tenure arsenic Test skipper successful June 2015 successful Bangladesh -- has led India successful a full of 68 trial lucifer series, with 40 wins and 17 losses.
On Friday, the Indian cricket squad suffered a 2-1 decision against South Africa successful Cape Town, with Kohli acknowledging connected societal media that it was "a pugnacious 1 to take."
"I person ever believed successful giving my 120 percent successful everything I do, and if I can't bash that, I cognize it's not the close happening to do," Kohli said. "I person implicit clarity successful my bosom and I cannot beryllium dishonest to my team."
Kohli, who is regarded arsenic 1 of the top cricketers of each time, antecedently served arsenic India's skipper successful some Twenty20 (T20) and One-Day International (ODI) matches.
In November 2021, he stepped down arsenic T20 captain, saying helium had an "immense workload" and needed to beryllium "fully acceptable to pb the Indian Team successful Test and ODI Cricket."
The pursuing month, helium was past removed arsenic India's ODI skipper by the team's enactment committee and replaced by Rohit Sharma, who besides took connected India's T20 captaincy.
During his clip arsenic captain, Kohli was praised for taking paternity leave halfway done a Test bid to beryllium contiguous for the commencement of his archetypal kid with his histrion woman Anushka Sharma, and for defending bowler Mohammed Shami from Islamophobic trolls.
Kohli volition proceed to play for India arsenic a batsman, with a bid of ODI matches against South Africa scheduled for adjacent week.
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