Shocking revelations were made. In the middle of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Virat Kohli was to be offered a captaincy of India’s red ball; However, by the end of the series, the veteran position in the team was questioned by the Indian management.
Virat Kohli last played for India in December 2024 in the longest format of the game in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The Test series made Australia a symbol of a long -awaited return of the trophy from the Indian team, which until then retained the rhythm of victory.
Australia won it by a margin of 3–1, although India started with a win in the first Test. Jaspreet Bumrah was the best performing player from India in the series; However, the Indian batsmen had to struggle on Australia’s bouncy pitches.
Virat Kohli was assured of a test captaincy in the previous border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Experienced Indian batsmen, who had lost their rhythm in red-ball cricket in the last few years after facing a severe decline in their batting average, woke up his form with a brilliant century in the initial match of the series in Perth. However, after that, Kohli failed to reach a small milestone of half -century in any of the remaining 9 innings.
However, since Rohit Sharma’s form had gone to a even lower level, and his average in the series had gone below only 10, it was considered to hand over the captaincy of the Indian team to Virat Kohli.
Revsprotz reporter Rohit Juglanlan has stated that after losing the Adelaide Day and Night Test, the Indian management informed Kohli that he was planning to be re-appointed as the Indian Red-Ball captain.
However, by the end of the series, the same Indian management expressed great doubt on his maintaining their in the Indian team for the upcoming Test. However, Virat announced his retirement just before India announced the Test team for the England series in the new WTC cycle of 2025-27.
After the Border-Gavaskar Trophy accident, this was the first time that India could not enter the finals of the World Test Championship after being runners up in the last two occasions in 2021 and 2023.
Virat Kohli returned to play for India after 8 months long absence
Ending the long wait of the Indian audience, his icon Virat Kohli has returned to the Indian color after a long gap of 8 months. His last match for Team India was the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy final against New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
Although Kohli was to play in the ODI series against Bangladesh in August, the series was postponed for one year in view of the current political tension between the two neighboring countries. This further delayed the return of this great player of the white ball.
Currently, Kohli is the second highest run -scorer after the great Sachin Tendulkar in ODI cricket; However, with 51 centuries, Kohli has surpassed Sachin in a record number of one day international centuries. Despite all these records, he was considered to be in the Indian side.
However, Indian selectors have supported him as well as fellow partner Rohit Sharma’s return to the Indian team; However, these two veterans will have to play under the leadership of newly appointed Indian captain young player Shubman Gill.
Virat Kohli’s RCB fans trolled LSG after the controversy started with an X post
Lucknow Super Gynts have recently rivals Royal Challengers Bangalore, and the LSG side has tried to resume rivalry with a controversial tweet on its social media page.
The post consists of a picture of fast bowler Aesh Khan celebrating with a gesture of throwing notorious helmets in 2023.
However, RCB fans are also standing behind their franchisees, especially when his franchise rewarded him for his loyalty with the first IPL trophy win in the last season of 2025. He has not only trolled the LSG team, but has also called him ‘Trophylas Team’, which is not RCB now.
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