Calling Virat Kohli's retirement a major blow to Test cricket, former England captain Michael Vaughan said no individual has done more for the longest format than the star Indian batter.

Virat Kohli has left Test cricket, a format he blew life into like a man stoking an unsteady fire. He was hardly a single-handed saviour, but with 272 million Instagram followers, and an inexhaustible spirit, he was its most persuasive evangelist. In India, once, the host broadcaster always had a camera following him.

London, "Gutted, shocked and sad" at Virat Kohli's sudden retirement from the longest format, former England skipper Michael Vaughan said no individual has done more for Test cricket than the star Indian batter.