"I'm gutted we won't see Virat Kohli in England this summer": Michael Vaughan

Team India stalwart Virat Kohli recently announced his retirement from the longest format of the game Following his retirement former England skipper Michael Vaughan expressed disappointment by saying gutted shocked and sadThe former cricketer also said that he has not seen anyone doing more for Test cricket than ViratThere are not too many Test retirements where I am left genuinely disappointed that I wont watch a cricketer play again But Im gutted we wont see Virat Kohli in England this summer or in whites any more Im shocked that hes retiring now and Im also quite sad about it In my time involved in the game stretching back more than 30 years I dont believe there is any individual who has done more for the Test format than Virat Vaughan wrote in his column for the TelegraphFeaturing in 123 Test matches Virat Kohli has scored 9230 runs with an average of 4685 The veteran also had 30 centuries and 31 halfcenturies to his name in the formatThe 36yearold also led India to 40 Test wins out of 68 matches With this he also stands as the most successful Test captain for IndiaAlso ReadIND vs ENG Tests The Indian team needs a batsman like him Cheteshwar Pujaras father ArvindSpeaking further Vaughan was worried India was losing interest in Test cricket and Kohli was the one who brought the love back to the format The Test cricket would have been a far blander place without KohliWhen he took the captaincy just over a decade ago I was worried India was losing interest in Test cricket MS Dhoni was one of the great whiteball players but it felt like he captained a Test team who did not love the format The game needs India to be madly in love with Test cricket and that is what Virat fostered as captain said the 50yearoldHis passion skill and the way he talked about Test cricket always being the pinnacle has been a huge shot in the arm for the format Test cricket would have been a far blander place without him and there is a chance it would have lost its appeal if he had not been as interested and invested in it Vaughan described Kohli as the greatest player across all formats and called his retirement a blow to Test cricket His retirement now is a blow to Test cricket and very disappointing for fans not least in England this summer but my belief is that he has helped forge a love for the format among the generation that will follow him and kept the flame burning wrote the former opening batterIts impossible to compare across every era but if you look at since T20 came in around 20 years ago he is almost certainly the greatest player when you consider all three formatsThe former English cricketer then feels that Virat Kohlis ego isnt as big as it has been made out to beAll great players have egos but maybe Virats wasnt quite as big as we thought Perhaps family life has mellowed him a bit and he just wants as normal a life as he possibly can which is probably going to be in London where he spends a lot of time now Those outside that bubble really cant imagine what its like being a Kohli or a Sachin Tendulkar with the pressure of billions of adoring fans on your shoulders concluded VaughanWith PTI InputsatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params