The return of senior cricketers like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to home cricket was welcomed by followers and consultants. Nonetheless, Aakash Chopra is not too happy with how a number of the cricketers left the scene after showing in only one spherical of matches within the Ranji Trophy 2024-25.
Rohit, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, and Ravindra Jadeja had been a number of the senior gamers who featured for his or her respective groups within the sixth spherical. Nonetheless, other than Jadeja, all others are lacking from the continued seventh spherical.
In the meantime, senior batter Virat Kohli, who missed the earlier spherical on account of a neck sprain, is representing Delhi in opposition to Railways on the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Like Kohli, KL Rahul can also be enjoying within the seventh spherical after lacking the earlier one on account of a niggle.
Chopra lambasted this facet, saying that this has made enjoying within the Ranji Trophy look like a punishment for the gamers.
“Virat Kohli is enjoying, however many others should not, like Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal or Shreyas Iyer. In the end, all of the gamers have performed their token Ranji Trophy match, marked their attendance and left,” Chopra mentioned whereas talking on his YouTube channel.
“Virat Kohli hadn’t performed that spherical, so he’s enjoying now. What does it inform you? This (enjoying Ranji Trophy) was a little bit of a punishment posting. However enjoying first-class cricket should not be a punishment, it needs to be a privilege,” he added.
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Rahul made his return to the Ranji Trophy after a five-year hiatus. Enjoying for Karnataka, the 32-year-old was dismissed for 26 by Anshul Kamboj on Day 1.
In the meantime, round 28,000 followers turned as much as the Arun Jaitley Stadium to observe Kohli in motion in opposition to Railways. Nonetheless, the passionate spectators needed to be content material with watching the legendary cricketer fielding in the course of the day. Each Rahul and Kohli are a part of India’s squad for the three-match ODI collection in opposition to England, beginning on February 6.
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