New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- It was a mixed bag of a year, mostly joyous for iconic Indian batter Virat Kohli and his fans, as despite his heart-shattering retirement from Test cricket without any glimpses of another 'peak' and crossing 10,000 runs, the veteran more than made up for all the disappointment with his excellence in limited-overs cricket.

The first image in 2025 for Virat and his fans was him helplessly nicking an outside off-stump delivery by Scott Boland to Steve Smith in slips as he concluded a disastrous Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT), slapping his thigh and cursing himself for time and again falling to the 'corridor of uncertainty' again and again. But as the year comes down to a close, Virat is in the midst of a lethal limited-o...