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The past clip Virat Kohli played a List A fixture that was not an ODI was mode backmost successful September 2013 erstwhile helium led Delhi against India Blue successful the last of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy.
On Wednesday, helium is acceptable to span that spread of 12 years and a small much erstwhile Delhi takes connected Andhra successful its Vijay Hazare Trophy Elite Group-D opener here.
The contest, however, volition beryllium played astatine the BCCI Centre of Excellence successful the city’s outskirts aft the Karnataka authorities refused support for M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. The necktie volition beryllium down closed doors arsenic the CoE doesn’t person seating arrangements.
The fixture was primitively scheduled to beryllium held astatine the Alur Grounds, but erstwhile Kohli’s information became certain, it was sought to beryllium moved to the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
But hosting matches determination was ever conditional to the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) implementing the recommendations of the Justice Michael D’Cunha report, formulated arsenic portion of the probe into the decease of 11 radical successful a stampede during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s title-winning celebrations connected June 4, 2025.
On Tuesday, the reappraisal committee that was formed to see KSCA’s petition to behaviour matches did not springiness the go-ahead, citing non-compliance.
When Kohli turned retired for a Ranji Trophy lucifer earlier this twelvemonth aft a near-identical gap, much than 12,000 fans turned up astatine the Feroz Shah Kotla.
In Bengaluru, it remains to beryllium seen however galore volition brave the astir 50km region from the metropolis centre to drawback a glimpse of 1 of their favourite stars, from extracurricular the compound partition and done the barbed wires.
In each probability, a free-spirited cricketer with infinite zeal volition play with nary resonant vigor from the stands to bounce off.
