New Delhi, May 12 -- Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket on Monday with a heartfelt message on Instagram, drawing curtains to his illustrious 14-year-old career in red-ball cricket. The former India captain, thus became the third high-profile Indian cricketer to retire from Tests after Ravichandran Ashwin and Rohit Sharma in recent time.

Arguably the best in modern-day cricket, Kohli retired after playing 123 Tests, scoring 9230 runs, which included 30 hundreds. I'm walking away with a heart full of gratitude - for the game, for the people I shared the field with, and for every single person who made me feel seen along the way," Kohli wrote on Instagram with a picture of himself.

"I'll always look back at my Test care...