India, May 13 -- With Virat Kohli's retirement, India bid adieu to one of their greatest Test cricketers. Kohli's legacy can't just be defined by numbers, as he has done a lot more in whites. He brought the much-needed fire back to red-ball cricket, which had started to fade with the emergence of the T20 format. Team India was in turmoil, placed at the seventh position in the ICC rankings, when he took over the charge of the Test side from MS Dhoni in the 2014-15 Australia tour.

He ended up taking India to heights that no other captain ever could in the red-ball format. He led them to a historical first-ever Test series victory by an Asian team on Australian soil. Under his leadership, India also won Test matches in England and South Afr...