THE KING STEPS DOWN FROM HIS THRONE

Virat Kohli made Gen-Z fall in love with Red and Whites

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Virat Kohli entered drawing rooms as a “West Delhi boy”, grew on his fans like a nev-er-ending love story with his boundless passion and finally called time on his career in whites when his legion of admirers yearned for ‘One Last Dance’.

In his mind, he knew that although “it is not easy”, it did “feel right”. The question to be asked is when exactly did Kohli get this feeling? Perhaps, it was after a torrid tour of Australia where he scored only 91 runs after his second innings century in Perth.

Yet, Indian cricket needed him in England but it seems, the mind, more than the body, had taken enough battering to last a lifetime and he didn't want to go through another five Test series. Virat Kohli, the Test devotee, decided to wave the white flag.

From Cheeku to Virat to King Kohli

From being the chubby 'Cheeku' for his seniors, Virat for his contemporaries and now 'Bhaiyya' to the juniors, 'King Kohli' did traverse a fair distance and experienced joys of highs and the despair of lows in equal measure.