Finally, Virat Kohli is also going to make a comeback in domestic cricket after a long gap. Kohli, who has been playing and scoring runs continuously in every format for the last one and a half decade in international cricket, is now returning to Ranji Trophy after 4468 days. Yes, former Indian captain Virat Kohli has agreed to play for his home team Delhi and he will take the field in the match against Railways from January 30. Now his return has been decided, in such a situation, against whom, when and where Kohli played his last Ranji Trophy match and how was his performance in it, all this is told in this report.

Return to Ranji after strictness of BCCI

First of all let's talk about the reason for Virat's return. The Indian team had to face defeat in the Test series against New Zealand and Australia, in which the failure of the batsmen was also a reason. Kohli had scored only one century and one half-century in the 8 Tests played in these two series. Apart from him, captain Rohit Sharma had also completely failed, after which head coach Gautam Gambhir had said that everyone will have to play domestic cricket and then BCCI had also tightened the rules and directed senior cricketers to play Ranji Trophy.

After the end of Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy, the group stage matches of Ranji Trophy are returning again from January 23. While players like Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant had agreed to play against their respective teams on January 23, Virat had made himself unavailable citing neck pain. Due to this, questions were being raised whether Kohli will not play in the match between Delhi and Railways from January 30? The answer to this has also been received now because Kohli has told DDCA President Rohan Jaitley that he is available for this match.

This was the performance 4468 days ago

With this, Virat is going to return to Ranji Trophy after 4468 days. Earlier, Kohli had stepped on the field for Delhi in the 2012-13 season. Kohli's last match that season was against Uttar Pradesh, when the two teams clashed at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Ghaziabad between November 2 and November 5. However, that match was not good for Kohli and his team Delhi and the team had to face defeat. While Kohli could score only 14 runs in the first innings, he was out after scoring 43 runs in the second innings. Incidentally, both times Kohli was dismissed by Uttar Pradesh's star fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar.