Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket on Monday, after playing in the Indian white jersey for more than a decade. He scored 9,230 runs at an av

Virat Kohli has left Test cricket, a format he blew life into like a man stoking an unsteady fire. He was hardly a single-handed saviour, but with 272 million Instagram followers, and an inexhaustible spirit, he was its most persuasive evangelist. In India, once, the host broadcaster always had a camera following him.

A reflection on the superstar's impressive and impactful career as he retires from the longest form of a sport that obsesses his country