Virat Kohli's Test career in pictures

Virat Kohli made his Test debut in June 2011 in the series against West Indies

After an average start to his Test career, Virat Kohli impressed in the third Test against West Indies in Mumbai, scoring fifties in both innings. The match ended in a draw with the scores level

Virat Kohli's first Test century came in Adelaide during the 2011-12 Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Virat Kohli bagged his first player of the match award in Tests in Bengaluru following knocks of 103 and 51* in the second Test against New Zealand

On his first visit to South Africa, Virat Kohli struck 119 and 96 in Johannesburg in the first Test of the two-match series

In his first Test trip to England in 2014, Virat Kohli had an underwhelming series as he struggled against James Anderson. He finished with only 134 runs at an average of 13.40, with two ducks, a series that he later described as his lowest phase in his career

Virat Kohli, however, made up for his poor show in England with four centuries in Australia, including two in Adelaide, as he ended the series with 692 runs at an average of 86.50. This was also the series in which he captained India for the first time, leading them in Adelaide in the absence of MS Dhoni

India's tour of Sri Lanka - the Cricbuzz Cup - was Virat Kohli's first full-time Test captaincy assignment and India went on to clinch the series 2-1. This was India's first series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993

Virat Kohli's first double century came against West Indies at North Sound in 2016. He went on to register six more double centuries in his career, finishing with seven - the most for India

Of his seven double tons, six of them came in 2016 and 2017, including two in the home series against Sri Lanka in 2017

Virat Kohli's biggest achievement as captain was the 2-1 Test win against Australia in Australia. With this, India became the first Asian team to win a Test series in Australia

Virat Kohli's best Test score came against South Africa in Pune in October 2019 as he struck an unbeaten 254, the last of his double hundreds

After the series loss in South Africa in 2022, Virat Kohli decided to step down from Test captaincy. He remains the most successful Indian Test skipper, with 40 wins out of 68 matches

Virat Kohli went without a Test hundred for 36 innings before scoring 186 against Australia in Ahmedabad in March 2023

Virat Kohli's last of 30 Test hundreds came against Australia in Perth in November 2024

India were crowned the No.1 Test team in the ICC Rankings for a continuous period of 42 months from October 2016 till early March 2020 under Virat Kohli's captaincy

With 9230 runs in 123 matches, including 30 hundreds and 31 fifties, Virat Kohli ended his Test career as India's fourth-highest run-getter. He also has the fourth-most Test hundreds for India after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar

Virat Kohli won't be part of India's upcoming tour of England in a month's time but his legacy as a great batter and one of the finest ambassadors of Test cricket will live on, hopefully inspiring future generations to embrace the format with the same pride and passion