Virat Kohli announces retirement from T20Is

Virat Kohli reported his retirement from T20Is following India's seven-run triumph against South Africa in the last of the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup. He was granted the Player of the Counterpart for his 59-ball 76 in his last T20I which assisted India with lifting its second World T20 title. "This was my last T20 World Cup, this is precisely exact thing we needed to accomplish," Kohli said in the post-match show on Saturday. "One day you feel like you can't get a run and this occurs, God is perfect. Simply the event, presently or never sort of circumstance. This was my last T20 game playing for India. We needed to lift that cup. "Indeed I have [announced my retirement from T20Is], this was a loosely held bit of information. It was not something that I won't declare regardless of whether we had lost. It's the ideal opportunity for the cutting edge to take the T20 game forward. It's been a significant delay for us, holding back to win an ICC competition. You see somebody like Rohit [Sharma], he's played nine T20 World Cups and this is my 6th. He merits it." Kohli, who made his T20I debut in June 2010, highlighted in 125 games for India in the configuration and scored 4188 runs, which included one hundred years and 38 half-hundreds of years. He won two Player of the Competition grants in the T20 World Cups of 2014 and 2016. Kohli wraps up as the second-most elevated run-getter in T20Is, behind Rohit Sharma.