Virat Kohli ‘not greater than the game’, R Ashwin says India won’t miss him in England Tests: ‘He played and he left’

Virat Kohli ‘not greater than the game’, R Ashwin says India won’t miss him in England Tests: ‘He played and he left’

Ashwin is not ready to credit Test cricket's past, present and future to any individual. It is the game that makes the players and not the other way around.

A RevSportz exclusive“I think he is already too overwhelmed by the attention and responsibility he has got” – R Ashwin on Shubman Gill’s captaincy challenge

Ravichandran Ashwin. Image: Twitter/X Boria Majumdar When R Ashwin called it quits midway through the tour of Australia last December, India didn’t just lose a bowler who had taken 537 wickets in just 106 Tests – second only to Anil Kumble (619) among Indians. They also lost someone with 3,503 Test runs and six centuries. With Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli also having announced their Test retirements since, it’s very much a new-look side that wil…