Debut on 20 June 2011, retirement on 12 May 2025… Complete story of the first and last match of Virat Kohli’s Test career.

Veteran players of Team India Virat Kohli Had said goodbye to Test cricket on this day i.e. 12th May 2025. Kohli surprised everyone by suddenly retiring from Test cricket. From former cricketers to fans, they did not believe in Kohli’s decision, but now it has been a year since Kohli left Test cricket.

While being the captain in Test cricket, Kohli had kept Team India at number-1 ranking for many years. Virat Kohli has had the best record in Test cricket compared to any Indian captain. Today we are going to tell you the complete story of Kohli’s first and last test match.

How was your performance in the first test match?

Virat Kohli got the opportunity to debut in Test cricket for Team India on 20 June 2011. He played his first test match in West Indies. In this match, Kohli was seen batting at number 8. Bowlers like Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar came to bat above him. Although the debut test match was nothing special for Kohli.

Batting in the first innings of the match, he scored 4 runs and 15 runs in the second innings. That means, in the first Test of his career, only 19 runs were scored from Kohli’s bat. However, Team India won this match by 63 runs and Rahul Dravid was the player of the match.

How was your performance in the last test?

If we talk about Virat Kohli’s last test match, he played it against Australia on their own soil. The fifth and last Test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy for the year 2024-25 was played in Sydney and this match also proved to be the last match of Kohli’s Test career.

While batting in this match, Virat scored 17 runs in the first innings and 6 runs in the second innings. That means overall, only 23 runs were scored from Kohli’s bat in this match. In this match, Team India had to face defeat by 6 wickets. The Indian team was defeated in the series also. Overall, Kohli’s first and last test matches were nothing special.