While an entire cricket world continues to regret the sudden retirement from test cricket by Virat Kohli which has been roundly blamed by sections of the Indian media to a renegading U Turn by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has in that intensifying pall of gloom taken a cloak and dagger Shakespearean tragedy twist that has begun to balloon like a rushing engulfing monster tsunami.
Going by this largely cricketing tragedy of by all accounts the shooting down of world cricket’s greatest ever showman for the unparalleled intensity Kohli had redefined above all the game of test cricket, the whole dirty saga by the reported U Turn act by the BCCI boils down to literally an et Brute stab in the back unkindest cut dealt to by far India’s greatest ever cricketer even surpassing the great Sachin Tendulkar in taking Indian test cricket from a hollow to the Everest of the format.
For, before Kohli, India had a poor test record, particularly overseas. But the advent of Virat Kohli as India’s test captain was to change all that by the superman of cricket verily by the very ruthless intensity he played his cricket with no equals when his bat talked and walked the walk.
In a quote from Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’s Mark Anthony oration when Caesar fell, ‘Fare thee well, why doest thou lie so low’.