India, Dec. 28 -- Virat Kohli's recent crackling form in white-ball cricket has Navjot Singh Sidhu seeking divine intervention. The former Indian batter said that if God ever granted him one wish, he would ask for Kohli to come out of Test retirement and play the toughest format of the game again. Kohli, 37, widely regarded as one of the finest Indian Test captains, retired from his favourite format earlier this year, just days before the squad announcement for the series against England.

Kohli's decision came on the back of a horrendous Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia Down Under, where he kept chasing deliveries bowled in the fourth stump channel. He did score a century in the series opener in Perth, but his campaign went downh...