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Virat Kohli News: After losing the Test series 3-0 at home to New Zealand, India also suffered a humiliating 2-0 defeat at the hands of South Africa. After this defeat, there is talk about team combination, bad batting and bad bowling. Besides, head coach Gautam Gambhir has also been the target. On the other hand, social media and former cricketers have started saying that the team has become very weak after the retirement of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli from Test cricket. Meanwhile, a report also started claiming that BCCI can convince Virat Kohli to return to Test.

According to Cricbuzz, ‘the idea of ​​approaching Virat Kohli to reconsider his retirement has begun within the board. The report also claims that a player who recently retired may be ‘ready to reconsider’ about his Test future.

Kohli-Rohit and Ashwin had retired

These discussions started immediately after India’s crushing defeat in the home series against South Africa. Head coach Gautam Gambhir cited the lack of experience in the team and blamed ‘transition’ for this defeat. After Gambhir took over the command, Ashwin along with Rohit-Kohli had retired from Test. Ashwin surprised everyone by announcing his retirement in the middle of the Australia tour.

What did BCCI say??

Now BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia has given a big statement on the claims made in the report regarding Kohli. According to the report of Aaj Tak, Devjit Saikia said that whatever is being said about Virat Kohli is just a rumour. Saikia said that there was no discussion with Virat about this. He also said that rumors should not be paid attention to.

Indian batsmen were seen struggling even on the spin track

Let us tell you that India’s batting is currently one of the teams with the least experienced batsmen in world cricket. The performance of Team India’s batsmen has been lackluster even on spin-friendly pitches. Indian batsmen have been seen struggling to score runs in front of foreign spinners. Rohit and Kohli had reportedly retired from Test cricket in May this year after seeing their roles in the team diminishing. However, for some time now both the star batsmen were not able to score runs as per their capacity.

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But, when the team with young batsmen had to face defeat against South Africa at home, various discussions started again about Rohit-Kohli.