{"id":10449,"date":"2025-12-29T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=675341"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:01:01","slug":"vijay-hazare-trophy-is-virat-kohli-playing-today-heres-the-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/vijay-hazare-trophy-is-virat-kohli-playing-today-heres-the-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Hazare Trophy: Is Virat Kohli playing today? Here\u2019s the update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virat Kohli is not playing today<\/strong> for Delhi in the <strong>third round of the Vijay Hazare Trophy<\/strong> on Monday. The former India captain has been <strong>rested<\/strong> for Delhi\u2019s match against <strong>Saurashtra<\/strong> at the <strong>Karnataka Cricket Association (KSCA) Stadium, Alur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Both <strong>Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma<\/strong> had already fulfilled their planned appearances in the tournament, having featured in <strong>only the first two matches<\/strong> for their respective teams. As per the original schedule, neither player was expected to play all league games, and their absence in today\u2019s round is part of <strong>pre-decided workload management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi won the toss and <strong>opted to field first<\/strong> against Saurashtra. Kohli\u2019s name does <strong>not feature in the Delhi Playing XI<\/strong> for today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<h3>Playing XIs (Scorecard update)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Saurashtra (Playing XI):<\/strong><br \/>\nHarvik Desai (wk\/c), Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Sammar Gajjar, Prerak Mankad, Chirag Jani, Ruchit Ahir, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Ankur Panwar, Hiten Kanbi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delhi (Playing XI):<\/strong><br \/>\nPriyansh Arya, Arpit Rana, Nitish Rana, Rishabh Pant (wk\/c), Harsh Tyagi, Ayush Doseja, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Prince Yadav, Simarjeet Singh, Ishant Sharma<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s next for Virat Kohli?<\/h3>\n<p>Virat Kohli had an impressive outing in the two matches he played for Delhi, scoring <strong>131 and 77<\/strong>. According to a <strong>Cricbuzz report<\/strong>, Kohli is <strong>expected to play one more match<\/strong> for Delhi, likely against <strong>Railways on January 6<\/strong>, before joining the Indian team for national duties.<\/p>\n<p>Both Kohli and Rohit Sharma are set to feature in the <strong>ODI series against New Zealand starting January 11<\/strong>, and are expected to join the <strong>national camp soon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For now, <strong>Virat Kohli is not playing today<\/strong>, and Delhi are taking the field without him in this Vijay Hazare Trophy fixture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli is not playing today for Delhi in the third round of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Monday. The\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10449","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\/10449","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=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}