{"id":10394,"date":"2025-12-19T20:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=673400"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:49:22","slug":"rishabh-pant-to-captain-delhi-in-vijay-hazare-trophy-virat-kohli-ishant-navdeep-saini-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/rishabh-pant-to-captain-delhi-in-vijay-hazare-trophy-virat-kohli-ishant-navdeep-saini-included\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishabh Pant to captain Delhi in Vijay Hazare Trophy; Virat Kohli, Ishant, Navdeep Saini included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"390\">Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) on Friday announced the <strong data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"330\">Delhi Senior Men\u2019s squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025\u201326<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"370\">Rishabh Pant named as captain<\/strong> for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"727\">In an official communication dated December 19, 2025, DDCA confirmed that <strong data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"529\">Rishabh Pant, Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma, and Navdeep Saini<\/strong> have all confirmed their availability and will be part of the Delhi squad for the domestic 50-over competition. The Vijay Hazare Trophy is scheduled to begin on <strong data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"726\">December 24, 2025, in Bengaluru<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"978\">The squad was finalised during a meeting of the Senior Men\u2019s Selection Committee held on December 19. The committee included selectors Yashpal Singh, K. Bhaskar Pillai, and Manu Nayar, along with chief coach Sarandeep Singh and other DDCA officials.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1270\">Pant\u2019s appointment as captain marks a significant boost for Delhi, with the wicketkeeper-batter set to lead a side that includes several experienced and emerging players. The DDCA also stated that <strong data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1239\">Harshit Rana will join the squad once he becomes available<\/strong>, depending on his commitments.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1272\" data-end=\"1420\">The announced squad will be in action for <strong data-start=\"1314\" data-end=\"1357\">the first two matches of the tournament<\/strong>, after which changes, if any, will be communicated separately.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1496\"><strong data-start=\"1426\" data-end=\"1494\">Delhi squad for Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025\u201326 (first two matches):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1751\">Ayush Badoni (Vice-Captain), Arpit Rana, Yash Dhull, Sarthak Ranjan, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Singh (Wicketkeeper), Nitish Rana, Hritik Shokeen, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Prince Yadav, Divij Mehra, Ayush Doseja, Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana, Anuj Rawat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) on Friday announced the Delhi Senior Men\u2019s squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025\u201326,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}