Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from Test cricket, bringing the curtain down on a career that spanned 14 years and included 123 Tests - 68 of them as captain - in which he scored 9230 runs at an average of 46.

Virat Kohli—a cricketer from India considered one of the greatest in the history of the sport—is retiring from Test cricket at the age of 36, he announced Monday morning. Test cricket, played over the course of five days, is considered the most prestigious form of the sport.

The announcements in rapid succession from both incumbent captain Rohit Sharma and his predecessor, Virat Kohli, of their retirements from Test cricket have left the Indian cricket in a state of shock.