India, Sept. 30 -- It's been over a year since Virat Kohli retired from Test cricket, but Kapil Dev still struggles to come to terms with it. Kapil, India's first-ever World Cup-winning captain, feels Kohli should have continued playing the format longer and believes that perhaps a few years down the line, Virat would realise that he could have gone beyond 123 Tests.

Kohli retired from Tests on May 12, 2025, five days after Rohit Sharma's announcement. He finished playing the format as India's fourth-highest run-scorer in Test cricket, behind Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. That he couldn't complete 10,000 runs in the format will always remain a bitter pill to swallow, but since his retirement, Kohli has found a second...