Cricket: Intertwined legacies of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be hard to match
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have 284 T20I appearances and 8,419 runs among them.
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The visuals of a smiling Rohit Sharma embracing a tearful Virat Kohli near the dugout on Saturday formed a core memory for a generation of cricket fans in India.
But as that scene flashed out on television screens across the globe, little did anyone anticipate what was to follow.
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Moments after India lifted the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup – the country’s second title in the format – in Barbados, Kohli dropped a bombshell.
“This was my last T20I game for India,” said Kohli after receiving the Player of the Match award for his knock of 76 at the Kensington Oval.
“It was an open secret,” the former captain added.
An open secret? Not really, many would argue. But then, as Kohli himself mentioned, “it was time for the new generation to take over.”
Even as Indian fans came to terms with the aspect of not watching Kohli in T20 Internationals anymore – almost an hour and a half after his announcement, captain Sharma revealed he was bowing out from the format as well in the post-match press conference.
“There is no better time to say goodbye to this format,” stated Sharma, who earned the distinction of becoming only the third Indian World Cup winning captain that...
