{"id":127404,"date":"2025-09-08T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127404\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:55:07","slug":"cricket-will-miss-him-chris-gayle-gives-his-take-on-virat-kohlis-retirement-from-test-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127404\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cricket will miss him&#8217;: Chris Gayle gives his take on Virat Kohli&#8217;s retirement from Test cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Former West Indies batter Chris Gayle recently came forward and talked about Virat Kohli&#8217;s decision to retirement from the longest format of the game. He also gave his take on the star batter&#8217;s IPL winning campaign.\n              <\/p>\n<p>                New Delhi: <\/p>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Former West Indies batter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/chris-gayle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Gayle<\/a> recently came forward and expressed his opinion on India batter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virat Kohli<\/a>\u2019s decision to retire from the longest format of the game. It is worth noting that Kohli retired from Test cricket on May 12, 2025, after playing 123 Test matches and amassing 9,230 runs to his name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After his announcement to retire from test cricket, many opined that Kohli\u2019s decision came a little too early, and the same was the thinking of Chris Gayle. Speaking in a recent interview, Gayle opined that the sport will miss Kohli in whites and that he retired way too early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah, very early. Very early. You know, for whatever reason, I don\u2019t know, but Cricket will miss him 100%. Cricket will miss him. He\u2019s a massive, massive figure for the game of cricket,\u201d Gayle said in a YouTube video with Shubhankar Mishra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he also talked about Kohli\u2019s campaign in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/ipl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IPL<\/a> (Indian Premier League) and how glad he is that the ace batter ended up lifting the trophy as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just happy a guy like Virat lifted the trophy as well, because you know there was so much talk here and there. We\u2019d been to a couple of finals together, so I was really overwhelmed to actually be a part of that RCB team, to lift the trophy. And just as I\u2019m happy, I\u2019m sure AB was just as excited for RCB as well,\u201d Gayle said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gayle opened up on his bond with Kohli and De Villiers<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, Gayle also reflected on the bond he shared in Royal Challengers Bengaluru with AB de Villiers and Kohli. Branding them as legends, Gayle went on to heap massive praise on the duo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose legends, phenomenal players, phenomenal people as well. You know, very cool, very down-to-earth as well. Good vibes, good energy. I had a great time playing with these guys in the dressing room. We had some great memories. We shared some great memories,\u201d Gayle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former West Indies batter Chris Gayle recently came forward and talked about Virat Kohli&#8217;s decision to retirement from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[67916,64,63,79029,740,40324,89119,85,2131],"class_list":["post-127404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ab-de-villiers","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-gayle","tag-cricket","tag-kohli-retirement","tag-kohli-test-cricket","tag-sports","tag-virat-kohli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}