Ranji Trophy 2024-25: Big Announcement before Champions Trophy 2025, Kohli and Rishabh Pant to play for Delhi.

The second session of the Ranji Trophy 2024 25 is set to commence on the 23rd of January. After the Indian team lost the series against Australia in the Border Gavaskar series, there is a great deal of unrest on the Indian batsmen. The Indian batsmen as a whole did not perform well in that series. Kohli, Shubman Gill, And captain Rohit Sharma failed to perform well in the entire series. Following this, former cricketers suggested that all the players of Team India should start playing in domestic competitions. During pickup: The squad for the second round of the Ranji Trophy for Delhi has been revealed which features the names of Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant.

According to Ashok Sharma From his interview with The Indian Express News. Where he was asked about Rishabh Kohli and Rishabh Sharma, here’s what he told the Indian Express, The Indian Team has had the chance to include both Virat and Rishabh in the list, but if India is to take part in the Ranji Trophy, Sharma must get inspired by his fellow players from Mumbai to play whenever he wishes to’, His statement about Delhi not having the same culture as Mumbai, ‘We are already seeing the BCCI being critical of the players in the past and encouraging those who are in India to seek out domestic players to provide competition to them. I don’t think they are going to play much this season, they should play a game.’

Comments of DDCA president with regards Fitness and Availability

Rohan Jaitley, president of the DDCA, is of the view, however, that ‘Sharma Kohli’ and ‘Rishabh Pant’, should, if fit and available, be registered for the Ranji Trophy. As he stated however, I believe there are other considerations. They participate in a vast amount of cricket, and they need to conserve their fitness, given that they play this amount of cricket, Jaitley said. He cited the examples of couple of players who were in need of development, so while saying cricket cannot include those on international duty, reaffirmed their stance on it. And several factors do maintain their work as balanced and the selectors of the country keep them well in check, but on their list of things to do, domestic is a priority.

Virat Kohli Ranji Trophy Performance in the tournament has played 23 matches won 13 and Made his debut for in the 2006 07 Season.

His first match was held against Tamil Nadu; however, it was not remarkable because he only managed to get 10 runs. In general, Kohli has Paul Durrant managed to score a total of 1,574 runs in the Ranji Trophy, with an exceptional average of 51 with 5 of those being centuries. His last game was for the Ranji Trophy in 2012 as well when he played against Uttar Pradesh. He managed to score 14 runs in the first inning and 42 runs in the second one; both were bowled out by India’s swing sensation Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

Possible Squad of Delhi For the Second Placement of the 2024-25 Ranji Trophy

The complete squad announced by DDCA consists of following members:

Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Harshit Rana, Ayush Badoni, Sanat Sangwan, Gagan Vats, Yash Dhull, Anuj Rawat (wicketkeeper), Jonty Sidhu, Siddhant Sharma, Himmat Singh, Navdeep Saini, Pranav Rajvanshi(wicketkeeper), Sumit Mathur, Mani Grewal, Shivam Sharma, Mayank Gusain, Vaibhav Kandpal, Himanshu Chauhan, Harsh Tyagi, Shivank Vashisht, Prince Yadav, Ayush Singh, Akhil Chaudhary, Hrithik Shaukeen, Lakshya Thareja (wicketkeeper), Ayush Doseja, Arpit Rana, Vikas Solanki, Samarth Seth, Raunak Vaghela, Anirudh Chaudhary, Rahul Gehlot, Bhagwan Singh, Mayank Rawat, Tejaswi Dahiya (wicketkeeper), Parthik, Rahul Dagar, Aryan Rana, Salil Malhotra, and Jitesh Singh.