Making sense of Virat Kohli's decision to step down

After the Cape Town Test finished on Friday (January 14) evening, Virat Kohli was seen talking one-on-one with Rahul Dravid for quite a while at the Newlands Stadium. The correspondence wasn't in the changing area, conceivably in light of the fact that there would be different individuals from the crew, yet in the lounge area of the arena. After with regards to a drawn-out heart to heart, the group left for the inn. A few hours after the fact, the crew individuals assembled in the group room there, where Kohli reported his choice to surrender the Test captaincy.

Those aware of everything, and who have addressed Kohli about his choice, have let Cricket know that he intended to give up the captaincy regardless of whether India, the top choice to beat South Africa, had won the series.

When Kohli declared his deliberate acquiescence to his partners, it was late in the night in India yet Cricket discovers that the India skipper settled on a decision to BCCI secretary Jay Shah to illuminate his choice. This time around, there was no phone call, similar to the one on September 2020 when Kohli had reported his choice to surrender the T20I captaincy. The call to Shah about surrendering the Test captaincy was rather immediate, and no other person was important for that discussion.