India, May 13 -- Virat Kohli was considering Test retirement for quite some time. Loss of form, BCCI's strict policy for players' families on tours, Indian selectors wanting to look ahead were among the main reasons reported behind Kohli's decision to draw curtains on his red ball career, barely 752 runs short of 10000 runs. We would never know with certainty (at least for now), the real reasons behind Kohli's retirement, for he, like many other big names of Indian cricket in the past, had decided to stay within himself in the latter half of his career.

However, there was one man in the cricket universe whom Kohli kept in confidence before deciding anything. Kohli reportedly spoke to former India head coach Ravi Shastri before taking a f...