Virat Kohli Retirement From Test Cricket: For twelve years, Virat Kohli filled the most unfillable void in Indian cricket. Of Sachin Tendulkar. Now, he leaves Indian cricket with a fresh vacuum. Of Virat Kohli. Across 123 Tests, 210 innings, 9230 runs, 30 hundreds, and numerous match-winning feats in an era when India became a force abroad, he was the soul and spine of IndiaтАЩs batting, its sustainer and destroyer.