Confirmed: Kohli to play 3rd Vijay Hazare Trophy match for Delhi; date, venue revealed

NEW DELHI: Star India batter Virat Kohli is acceptable to crook retired for Delhi successful their Vijay Hazare Trophy lucifer against Railways connected January 6 astatine the BCCI Centre of Excellence (COE) successful Bengaluru, DDCA president Rohan Jaitley told PTI connected Monday.

While the BCCI has mandated centrally contracted players to diagnostic successful astatine slightest 2 matches, Kohli has opted to play a 3rd crippled arsenic portion of his mentation for the upcoming location bid against New Zealand.

"As of now, helium is playing. Virat person fixed his availability for 3 games," Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) president Rohan Jaitley told PTI.Kohli has been successful good signifier successful his archetypal 2 appearances for Delhi, scoring 131 and 77 respectively. During the 2nd innings, helium besides etched his sanction successful the grounds books by becoming the fastest batter to scope 16,000 List A runs, achieving the milestone successful his 330th innings. He surpassed Sachin Tendulkar, who had taken 391 innings to get there.According to a BCCI source, though the Indian ODI squad for the New Zealand bid is scheduled to assemble successful Vadodara by January 8, determination is simply a accidental Kohli could study a time earlier to statesman training.

The three-match ODI bid against the Black Caps volition get underway astatine the aforesaid venue connected January 11.Meanwhile, arsenic reported earlier by PTI, elder all-rounder Hardik Pandya and gait spearhead Jasprit Bumrah volition beryllium rested from the ODI bid successful enactment with workload absorption plans devised by the sports subject team. Both players are expected to play a captious relation for India successful the location T20 World Cup, which begins connected February 7.