India, Jan. 23 -- Former India batter Manoj Tiwary added his voice to the chatter around Virat Kohli's Test retirement, making a sensational claim in an interaction with InsideSport.

Kohli's decision to step away from Test cricket has stayed a live topic because his his red-ball career shaped an era for India - as a run-scorer, as a captain, and as a defining personality of modern Test cricket, With contemporaries such as Joe Root and Steven Smith continuing to stack up big Test hundreds, the gap left by his exit is still being discussed whenever the format's biggest performances grab attention.

A parallel strand of debate has also involved the way fans and commentators rank formats by difficulty, with Test often described as the toughe...