Virat Kohli’s sudden decision to quit Test captaincy left even Rohit Sharma, the designated Test vice-captain and the man who took over from Kohli as the white-ball captain, “shocked”.
Other team-mates gave generous tributes to Kohli, under whose leadership India attained unprecedented highs, who was the head coach for the majority of Kohli’s captaincy tenure, termed it a “sad day” because this was the Test team they had “built together”.
While lead spinner R Ashwin said Kohli had left behind a “headache” for his successor with the high benchmarks he had set, Ishant Sharma went down memory lane to when both he and Kohli were young cricketers making buy cialis pill their way up in the Delhi Ranji Trophy team.