BCCI breaks silence on whether Virat Kohli & Rohit Sharma were forced to retire from Tests

Following sudden retirement of superstar batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma from the longest format of the game, speculation was rife that BCCI might have forced them to retire .

In response, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has finally broken its silence over the matter on Tuesday. BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla ended the rumours by saying that the decision to retire is a player's own and no one in the cricket body can force him to make this decision.

"I want to make it very clear once and for all. We are all feeling the absence of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. The decision to retire was made by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli on their own. It is the policy of BCCI that we never tell any player to retire. It was their call," said Shukla.

"They have taken retirement on their own. We will always them. We will always consider them as legendary batters. It's very good for us that both of them are available for ODIs," he added.