{"id":10420,"date":"2025-12-24T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=674597"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:39:25","slug":"virat-kohli-brings-up-fifty-on-domestic-return-completes-16000-list-a-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/virat-kohli-brings-up-fifty-on-domestic-return-completes-16000-list-a-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli brings up fifty on domestic return, completes 16,000 List A runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"479\">Virat Kohli marked his return to domestic cricket in style, scoring a fluent <strong data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"304\">half-century for Delhi against Andhra Pradesh<\/strong> in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday. The former India captain reached his fifty during Delhi\u2019s chase after Andhra Pradesh posted <strong data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"451\">298 for 8<\/strong> in their allotted 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"799\">Kohli\u2019s innings also saw him <strong data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"552\">complete 16,000 runs in List A cricket<\/strong>, further cementing his dominance in the format. With this milestone, Kohli continues to hold a staggering list of records, being the <strong data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"780\">fastest batter to reach 10,000, 11,000, 12,000, 13,000, 14,000, 15,000 and now 16,000 runs<\/strong> in List A cricket.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"1095\">Playing his first domestic List A match in over a decade, Kohli looked in complete control, combining timing with intent as he anchored Delhi\u2019s chase alongside Nitish Rana. His knock once again underlined why he remains one of the most consistent and impactful batters in limited-overs cricket.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1097\" data-end=\"1369\">Kohli\u2019s return to the Vijay Hazare Trophy comes as part of the BCCI\u2019s directive encouraging senior players to feature in domestic tournaments when available, with the Delhi batter using the platform to sharpen his match readiness ahead of India\u2019s upcoming ODI assignments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli marked his return to domestic cricket in style, scoring a fluent half-century for Delhi against Andhra Pradesh in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420","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=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}