India, May 28 -- Team India's star batters Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli recently announced their retirements from Test cricket after enduring a flop show in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. Both had already retired from T20Is after winning the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup, and the challenge to score runs in Australia forced them to have a long, hard look at themselves and their future in Test matches. Rohit and Kohli, the two pillars of Indian batting for the better part of the last decade, will now only represent India in ODIs, in which they recently won the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. Their next big assignment lies in lifting the 2027 ODI World Cup, which takes place in South Africa two years from now.

With only a few matches scheduled bet...