There’s a strange poetry in endings. You rarely know when they’re coming, and yet, when they arrive, something in you just knows. Maybe this October when Virat Kohli walks out on Australian soil again it will feel like that. The last light of day on a long, glorious journey.

Australia feels familiar to him; the audience practically exists within his narrative. Fifteen years of jeers, cheers, intense stares… it’s become routine. Perhaps this occasion marks the conclusion.

He’s retired from T20Is and Tests already. The ODI series starting October 19 might just be the last time we see Virat Kohli’s bat glint under the Australian sun. Which, honestly, is where his real story began.

But to understand what this tour means, you have to rewind through time—to every bruise, every roar, every

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