Virat Kohli ICC Test Ranking: Even though Virat Kohli is one of the best batsmen in the world right now, his bat is currently sulking. Kohli did not score any runs. However, now he has announced his retirement from T20 Internationals, which means that now his full focus is on Tests and ODIs. The Indian team is currently not participating in ODIs but Test matches are ongoing. The World Test Championship continues with India trailing New Zealand in three consecutive games. Meanwhile, former India captain Virat Kohli has suffered a huge shock. This day, not seen in testing for ten years, finally arrived today. We are talking about the Test rankings released by the ICC.
Virat Kohli’s ICC rankings drop
After the India vs New Zealand Test series, the ICC has released its new Test rankings. Virat Kohli falls out of the top 20 in this regard. He was once out of the top 10 but now out of the top 20, which shows that Kohli is not in good form at the moment. Virat Kohli has dropped 8 spots this time. He has now been promoted to No. 22. However, the interesting thing is that before the Bangladesh series, Kohli had been in the top ten but after Bangladesh, he couldn’t score even in the New Zealand series and now the results are before us.
Kohli’s last few performances have been like this
India first played two Test matches at home against Bangladesh, which India won, although Kohli failed to score there too. Thereafter, when the New Zealand team came to India, all bets were off this time. Virat Kohli has scored only 192 runs in the last 10 innings. His average is 21.33. You expect much better than this from a batsman like Kohli. This also happens to average bowlers who have a short chance to bat.
Now Kohli faces challenge from Australia
The biggest challenge before Kohli now is his performance against Australia. The five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia will begin on November 22 and is also played by Kohli. While Australia has always been Kohli’s favorite, it will be interesting to see how an out-of-form Kohli will score there this time around. Let us tell you an interesting thing, this happened after 3617 days when Kohli was not in the top 10 in the ICC Test rankings. If you add these days to a year, you get approximately 9 years and 9 months. That means, let’s say about ten years. If Kohli is to make a comeback not only in the top ten but also in the top twenty, he will have to play at least two big innings in the Test match against Australia for things to be sorted out.
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