{"id":10431,"date":"2025-12-26T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=674878"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:04:41","slug":"vijay-hazare-trophy-virat-kohli-departs-for-77-after-steadying-delhis-innings-against-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/vijay-hazare-trophy-virat-kohli-departs-for-77-after-steadying-delhis-innings-against-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Hazare Trophy: Virat Kohli departs for 77 after steadying Delhi\u2019s innings against Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"369\">Virat Kohli was <strong data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"115\">dismissed for 77 off 61 balls<\/strong>, ending another commanding knock in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The Delhi batter struck <strong data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"225\">13 fours and one six<\/strong>, once again controlling the innings before falling with Delhi at <strong data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"315\">101\/3 after 20 overs<\/strong> at the BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"600\">Kohli\u2019s innings followed a fluent start, where he anchored Delhi\u2019s top order after Gujarat opted to bowl. His dismissal slowed Delhi\u2019s momentum slightly, with Rishabh Pant at the crease as the innings moved into the middle phase.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"1077\"><strong data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"631\">Earlier in the tournament<\/strong>, India\u2019s senior duo <strong data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"733\">Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma made a strong return to domestic one-day cricket<\/strong>. Chasing 299 against Andhra Pradesh, Kohli scored <strong data-start=\"784\" data-end=\"791\">131<\/strong>, while Rohit Sharma dismantled Sikkim\u2019s attack with a blistering <strong data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"877\">155 off 94 balls<\/strong> in Jaipur during a chase of 237. Although their first appearances were neither televised nor streamed, their form has been one of the biggest talking points of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 so far.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1079\" data-end=\"1224\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Kohli\u2019s consistency across games continues to underline his impact in the competition as Delhi look to build a competitive total against Gujarat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli was dismissed for 77 off 61 balls, ending another commanding knock in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The Delhi\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10431","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\/10431","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=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}