WATCH: The Last Ever Boundary Virat Kohli Hit In His Test Career

It’s officially the end of an era. After 14 years, 123 Tests, 9,230 runs and 30 Hundreds, Virat Kohli has called it a day from Test cricket.

It’s unquestionably one of the saddest days in Indian cricket in recent history as the country bids goodbye to its greatest ever Test skipper, the man who not just revolutionized Test cricket in the country but breathed a whole new life into the format itself. The country also bids goodbye to one of its greatest ever Test batters, someone who carried the team on his back and scaled never-seen-before heights during his peak.

Kohli’s announcement means that the Sydney Test against Australia in January will go down as his final ever Test. It’s not the greatest of memories for him per se, for not only did he register scores of just 17 & 6, it was also the game in which Australia officially reclaimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. 

Kohli’s final act as a Test batter was edging a delivery from Scott Boland to Steve Smith at slip, but just a few deliveries before the dismissal, he hit what is now his final ever boundary in Tests.

That’s right, Kohli’s last ever boundary in Tests was a pull shot that beat mid-on, and it incidentally came off the bowling of none other than Boland.