On January 20, India’s legendary badminton player Saina Nahwal had announced her retirement. Nehwal said that her body could no longer bear the physical demands of this sport. The Indian sports world congratulated Saina Nehwal on her historic career and sent best wishes for her life after retirement. Now Virat Kohli also congratulated Saina Nehwal (Virat Kohli on Saina Nehwal Retirement) and said that the whole of India is proud of her.

Virat Kohli congratulated

Virat Kohli, reacting to Saina Nahwal’s retirement, said, “Saina Nehwal, congratulations to you for a historic career that has given Indian badminton a special place in the world. Congratulations to you on a happy, meaningful and satisfying retirement. India is proud of you.”

Congratulations @NSaina on a legendary career that put Indian badminton on the world stage. Wishing you a happy, fulfilling and well-deserved retirement. India is proud.

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) January 23, 2026

Achievements of Saina Nehwal

Saina Nehwal won the bronze medal in the 2012 London Olympics. She became the first Indian player to win a medal in the Olympics. Her achievements continued to grow and in the year 2015 she became the world number-1 badminton player. In 2015, he won the silver medal in the World Championship. But in the last years of her career, Saina Nehwal kept struggling with injuries. Due to this, his performance also declined.

Talking about Virat Kohli, he has retired from T20 and Test formats. He is currently active only in ODI format and is in excellent form at the moment. Virat has scored 616 runs in his last 7 ODI innings at an excellent average of 123. In the last 7 innings, he has scored 3 centuries and 3 half-centuries.

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Virat Kohli London House: The first match of India and England Test series is to be played on 20 June at the Handingley Cricket Ground. After the retirement of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, a team with a new leadership has left for England. Before the start of the series, it is reported that Virat Kohli has feasted on the players of Team India at his home in London. It is being told that Virat called a few players to eat their home, of which Rishabh Pant also remained one.

If sources are to be believed, some players reached Virat Kohli’s London house on Monday evening. Mohammad Siraj, Arshdeep Singh and Rishabh Pant are reported to be involved in these. It is possible that Virat wants to give Gurmantra to the players of Team India before the start of a tough series against England. Although captain Shubman Gill was involved in this feast or not, no official confirmation has been done on it.

The first England tour was flopped on the tour of England

When Virat Kohli first went to play the Test series on England tour, he had become heavier till a half -century with his bat. On his first England tour, Virat scored just 134 runs in 10 innings, with his highest score of 39 runs. But when he went back to England in 2018, he had rescued the sweat of veterans like James Anderson and Stuart Broad. On the England tour of 2018, Virat scored 593 runs in 10 innings including two centuries. Perhaps it can also be the reason that Virat wants to explain to his young colleagues what difficulties they may have to face on the tour of England.

The Indian team left for England on 6 June to fix the preparations. Let us know that from June 13, India vs India a Intra Squad match was also played, in which Sarfaraz Khan played a brilliant century innings.

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