Suresh Raina on Virat Kohli T20I Retirement: Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings in the match played against Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2025. He batted brilliantly and took the team to a big score. On the other hand, seeing this brilliant innings of Virat Kohli, former Chennai Super Kings batsman Suresh Raina has given a big reaction. According to Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli has retired early from T20 International and he should not have retired now.
In fact, after the conclusion of T20 World Cup 2024, Virat Kohli retired from T20 International. He had said that now it is time for young players to come forward in this format. For this reason, Kohli announced his retirement as soon as the T20 World Cup ended. However, he had said that he would continue to play in the IPL.
Virat Kohli could have played till 2026 T20 World Cup – Suresh Raina
Virat Kohli may have retired from T20 International but at this time he is showing a very strong game in IPL. He scored 70 runs in 42 balls in the match played against Rajasthan Royals on Thursday. After his innings, Suresh Raina made a big statement and said that Kohli should have played till the 2026 T20 World Cup. Raina said during a conversation on Star Sports,
I still believe that Virat Kohli has taken early retirement from T20 cricket. He could have played till 2026. He is in very good form at the moment and he was also in great form during the 2025 Champions Trophy. The way he has maintained his fitness. Looking at that, it seems as if he is still at his peak.
Even if today Virat Kohli takes his T20I retirement back, he will walk into Indian T20I side ahead of each & every player in the T20I squad!!
— Rajiv (@Rajiv1841) April 24, 2025
I will always hate Virat for announcing retirement so early when non deserving players kept dragging themselves.pic.twitter.com/buk9zYWFK1
Let us tell you that in this match, RCB, batting first, scored a huge score of 205 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings of 70 runs with the help of 8 fours and 2 sixes in 42 balls. In response to this target, Rajasthan Royals team could score only 194 runs after losing 9 wickets.
