Srinagar: Former South Africa cricketer Daryll Cullinan has said that he wasn’t surprised with the retirement announcement from India superstar Virat Kohli from the Test cricket.
Kohli recently decided to end his 14-year-long Test career leaving both fans and cricketers stunned.
Daryll Cullinan, who played 70 Tests for the Proteas was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying that he wasn’t surprised with the announcement.
“His retirement didn’t really come as a surprise to me. We’ve seen in recent times he’s battled a bit at Test cricket. And what happens, I believe, as a batsman too, or sportsman or cricketer, is that when you are constantly working on your game and physically staying in shape and mentally dealing with anxiety at Test cricket, you get to a point where you don’t want to put in that work to get yourself out of a bad rut or find some form again. You don’t feel you want to do it anymore. I think that’s as much whether it’s injury or a really bad run which ends your career,” Cullinan was quoted by Hindustan Times.
Kohli, who made his Test debut in 2011 against the West Indies, went on to play 123 matches for India, amassing 9,230 runs at an average of 46.85. Few could have imagined he’d retire with fewer than 10,000 Test runs. Yet, at 36, Kohli fell 770 runs short of that milestone, concluding his career as India’s fourth-highest Test run-scorer, trailing only the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and Sunil Gavaskar.
