New Delhi: “He had one of those natures which called to you and in whose presence you felt it was good to live.” Frank Iredale wrote this of Victor Trumper, his colleague on the 1899 Australian tour of England. On Saturday at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), for those lucky enough to be there or watching on TV or mobile phones, it felt the same watching Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma turn back the clock. For both men, this match carried the weight of endings. Rohit and Kohli have both retired from Tests and T20Is. With no ODIs scheduled in Australia before the 2027 World Cup, these were almost certainly their final outings on Australian soil. “I don’t know if we’ll be coming back to Australia, but it was fun all these years that we played here,” said the 38-year-old Rohit Sharma af

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