The Ranji Trophy event in the domestic cricket season of 2024–25 will have Virat Kohli among its potential participants, according to a list released by the DDCA. Other well-known players like Yash Dhull, Navdeep Saini, Ayush Badoni, Anuj Rawat, and Rishabh Pant are also on the list. Pant recently participated in the Duleep Trophy before to the Bangladesh home series. Pant has made a terrific return to the Test squad with a century in the first Chennai Test against Bangladesh.
In November 2012, Virat participated in the Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh. He was removed by bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar after scoring 14 and 42 runs in each of the two innings. Virat has amassed 11,120 runs at an average of 49.86 throughout 146 first-class matches. With a high score of 254*, he has 36 centuries and 38 fifties to his credit.
On October 11, the premier baseball cricket competition in India, which has aided in the growth of several Indian players, including Virat Kohli, will get underway. Delhi’s Elite Plate Group D match versus Chhattisgarh is scheduled on the same day.
The first Test between India and New Zealand in Bengaluru, which begins on October 16, is scheduled to take place on October 11 after this Ranji Trophy match. It may provide Virat Kohli, who is trying to get back into form this year, some much-needed game experience in comfortable surroundings.
Kohli scored poorly in the first Test match against Bangladesh, scoring 6 and 17.
This year, Virat is having a bad run of results in every format. He has only managed 319 runs at a poor average of 18.76 in 15 games and 17 innings this year. He has only achieved one half-century and his highest score of 76 came against South Africa in the T20 World Cup final.
Virat’s average is now at an eight-year low in tests. He has amassed 8,871 runs at an average of 48.74 in 193 innings across 114 Test matches, including 29 hundreds and 30 fifties. His average was 48.28 in November 2016, the last time it was lower than this.
Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Himmat Singh, Pranshu Vijayran, Anirudh Chowdhary, Kshitiz Sharma, Vaibhav Kandpal, Siddhant Bansal, Samarth Seth, Jonty Sidhu, Siddhant Sharma, Tishant Dabla, Navdeep Saini, Harsh Tyagi, Lakshay Thareja (wk), Sumit Mathur, Shivank Vashisth, Salil Malhotra, Ayush Badoni, Gagan Vats, Rahul S Dagar, Hrithik Shokeen, Mayank Rawat, Anuj Rawat (wk), Simarjeet Singh, Shivam Kumar Tripathi, Kuldip Yadav, Lalit Yadav, Prince Choudhary, Shivam Kishore Kumar, Shivam Gupta (wk), Vaibhav Sharma, Jitesh Singh, Rohit Yadav, Sumit Kumar, Anmol Sharma, Keshav Dabas, Sanat Sangwan, Shubham Sharma (wk), Aryan Chaudhary, Aryan Rana, Bhagwan Singh, Saurav Dagar, Pranav Rajvanshi (wk).
Money Grewal, Kunwar Bidhuri, Nikhil Sangwan, Puneet Chahal, Priyansh Arya, Yash Dhull, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav, Suyash Sharma, Arpit Rana, Divij Mehra, Sujal Singh, Hardik Sharma, Himanshu Chauhan, Ayush Doseja, Ankit Rajesh Kumar, Dhruv Kaushik, Ankur Kaushik, Krish Yadav, Vansh Bedi, Yash Sehrawat, Vikas Solanki, Rajesh Sharma, Tejasvi Dahiya (wk), Rounak Waghela, Manpreet Singh, Rahul Gahlot, Aryan Sehrawat, Shivam Sharma, Siddharth Sharma, Parv Singla, Yogesh Singh, Deepesh Baliyan, Sagar Tanwar, Rishab Rana, Akhil Chaudhary, Digvesh Rathi, Sarthak Ranjan, Ajay Guliya
