“My aim is to score 10,000 runs..” Virat Kohli’s old interview goes viral after he retires from Tests

Virat Kohli retired from tests with 9230 runs in 123 matches for India.

After an incredible 14-year career that included 123 matches, including 68 as captain, Virat Kohli has formally announced his retirement from test cricket. He amassed 9,230 runs at an average of 46.85 over his test career, which included 30 half-centuries and 31 hundreds. An undefeated 254 was his highest score.

During the 2018–19 tour Down Under, Kohli led India to their first-ever test series victory in Australia, and he also led the team to 40 triumphs in 68 tests as captain.

Just before the team for the pivotal five-match test series against England, which begins on June 20, was announced, Virat Kohli told the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) of his decision on Saturday. It was anticipated that he would be selected in the squad.

The folks who count, who had him in their plans for England at least, were taken aback, but Kohli had already made up his decision.

Virat Kohli’s old interview about 10000 test runs goes viral

An old interview of his in which the teenage Kohli pledged to reach 10,000 test runs is making the rounds as several cricket players are urging him to reconsider his retirement intentions.

Kohli was possibly viewed as the next player to join the select seven batsmen who have scored 10,000 runs in both ODIs and test matches. After Rahul Dravid (13,288), Sunil Gavaskar (10,122), and Sachin Tendulkar (15,921), Virat Kohli is the fourth-highest run scorer in the Indian batting list.

“I don’t keep track of records at all. When I score a century in a match, I find out afterwards that it was the quickest to 10 centuries or something like that. So I only get to know about it after the match. Before the match, my focus is not on things like, ‘I have 5 innings left, and if I score 3 more centuries, I’ll set a record.’ I don’t think that way. My aim is to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket, and that’s something I really want to achieve,” Kohli said in Aaj Tak’s ‘Seedhi Baat’ in a 2013 interview.

Virat struggled for runs during his last test assignment, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 in Australia in November-January, scoring only 190 runs in nine innings at an average of 23.75, with his century in Perth being a highlight.

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