Virat Kohli Surprised Children By Dressing Up As Santa Claus: Every year today i.e. 25th December is celebrated with great pomp and show as Christmas Day all over the world. This day is very special for children, because they eagerly wait for Santa Claus. On this day Santa brings many gifts for children. If Virat Kohli comes as Santa and brings Christmas gifts to fulfill the wishes of the fans, then it would be different.

Virat gave gift as Santa Claus

A video of Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli is becoming increasingly viral on social media. This video has been posted from the ‘X’ account of Star Sports, in which Virat is seen dressed as Santa Claus. In this video, Virat is meeting the children of a shelter home in Kolkata and on the occasion of Christmas, Virat is seen giving special gifts to those children. In the video, many children of the shelter home are asking for different gifts from Santa on Christmas. In which some child expresses his desire to meet Cristiano Ronaldo and some wants to meet Virat Kohli and Spider-Man.

When @imVkohli turned Santa!

Throwback to a heartwarming Christmas surprise for little kids at a shelter home in Kolkata!

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! pic.twitter.com/QOW7NY7JJn

— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) December 24, 2025

This video of Virat is 6 years old

Actually, this video of Virat Kohli is 6 years old, when he went to this shelter home in the year 2019. In the video, Virat is seen listening to the wishes of the children and then on Christmas day, posing as Santa Claus, he is seen meeting the children and giving them gifts. The children look happy after receiving the gifts, but their happiness increases when Virat takes off the Santa dress and appears in his real form. Then seeing Virat in front of them, all the children run and hug him. Although this video is old but once again it is going viral on social media and is being liked a lot by the fans.

India-England Series Commentary Panel: The five -match Test series between India and England will start from June 20. During this time, the official broadcaster Star Sports of the series has announced the commentary panel of English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu on Saturday. The commentary panel has veteran players from all over the world. It includes the names of Ravi Shastri, Dinesh Karthik, Nasir Hussain, Stuart Broad and Navjot Singh Sidhu. See here the complete list of commentary panels of all languages ​​of India-England series.

In India-England series, more than one legend will give his voice

In the Indo-England series, more than one cricket expert is going to give his voice, which will make the cricket fans more fun to watch the series. Fans will also get an opportunity to understand the game’s barricades from experts.

English commentary panel- Ravi Shastri, Dinesh Karthik, Nasir Hussain, Michael Atherton, Stuart Broad, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Anil Kumble, Sanjay Manjrekar and Abhinav Mukund.

Hindi commentary panel- Navjot Singh Sidhu, Anil Kumble, Sanjay Manjrekar, Parthiv Patel, Sanjay Bangar, Varun Aaron, Deep Dasgupta, Anant Tyagi and Padamjeet Sehrawat.

Tamil Commentary Panel- Abhinav Mukund, S Badrinath, Ramesh, Anirudha Srikanth, Yo Mahesh, R Sridhar, Nani and Muthu.

Telugu commentary panel- MSK Prasad, Hanuma Vihari, R Sridhar, T Suman, Ashish Reddy, Kaliyan Krishna, NC Kaushik.

Team India’s full schedule for England tour

The Indian team has reached England for the five -match series. The first match of this series will be played in Headingley from 20 June. At the same time, the second Test will start from July 2 in Birmingham. While the third match will be played at Lord’s from 10 July. The fourth match of the series will be played in Manchester from 23 July. At the same time, the last match of the series will be held from 31 July at the Oval, London.

Indian team for England tour

Shubman Gill (Captain), Rishabh Pant (Vice -captain and wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Abhimanyu Ishwar, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurlel (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, Kuldeep, Kuldeep, Kuldeep, Kuldeep Yadav

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Delhi capitals vs sunrisers hyderabad: Today’s first match in IPL 2025 will be played between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad. This match will be held in Guwahati. KL Rahul’s return to Delhi’s playing XI is confirmed. He joined the team a day before the match.

Delhi Capitals won their first match in IPL 2025 on this ground. The team defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 1 wicket. In the match coming out of the hand, Ashutosh Sharma of Delhi played a match -winning innings of 66 runs. Talking about Sunrisers Hyderabad, he defeated Rajasthan Royals by 44 runs in the first match, but in the last match, Hyderabad team lost to Lucknow Super Giants.

Head to head figures of both teams

Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad have played a total of 24 matches in the IPL so far. Hyderabad has won 13 times and Delhi has won 11 times. The biggest score of Delhi Capitals against Hyderabad is 207 runs while Sunrisers Hyderabad has made the biggest total of 266 against Delhi.

Pitch report

A total of 16 matches of the IPL have been played in this stadium, out of which 8 times the batting and the same bowling team has won the same time. The team that wins the toss 9 times and losing the toss 7 times has won. The largest total here is 272, which was made by Kolkata Knight Riders against Delhi Capitals.

The pitch here is good for batting. The batsmen can score at a fast pace in the beginning as this pitch will help spinners in the middle order. You can get a turn here. If this match will be played in the afternoon, then the dew will not affect here. The captain who won the toss can take a decision to bat first.

Possible playing XI of Delhi Capitals- Jack Fraser McGark, Faf du Plessis, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Sameer Rizvi, Akshar Patel (captain), Triston Stabs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma.

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s possible playing XI- Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishaan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klassen (wicketkeeper), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins (Captain), Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Simarjit Singh.

Gujarat Titans vs Mumbai Indians, IPL 2025 Match 9: Today the 9th match of IPL 2025 will be played. Teams of Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians will clash at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Both teams are looking for their first win. The good news for Mumbai Indians is that captain Hardik Pandya will play in this match.

Gujarat and Mumbai had to face defeat in the first match of IPL 2025. Chennai defeated Chennai in Chepock, Mumbai. At the same time, Gujarat had to face defeat against Punjab Kings in his house. Today it is confirmed that the account of the victory of one of the two teams will open.

Hardik was banned for a match

In IPL 2025, Hardik Pandya could not play the match against Chennai Super Kings, as he was banned for a match due to the slow-over rate last season. Now captain Hardik is going to make a comeback. Hardik’s return to the playing XI is being considered in place of young player Robim Minj.

Pitch report

Talking about the pitch of Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, it will be helpful for the batsmen. Punjab Kings scored 243 runs in the first match of this season here. After this, Gujarat had to face defeat by just 11 runs. In the match of Gujarat and Mumbai, there may be rain of fours and sixes. Once again, a high scoring match can be seen here.

Possible playing XI of Gujarat Titans- Shubman Gill (Captain), Jose Butler, Sai Sudarshan, Shah Rukh Khan, Sharafen Rutherford, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada, famous Krishna

Impact Player- Mohammad Siraj

Possible playing XI of Mumbai Indians- Ryan Ricelton (wicketkeeper), Rohit Sharma, Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya (captain), Naman Dhir, Michel Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Bolt and Satyanarayana Raju

Impact Player- Vignesh Puthur

Gujarat Titans vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025: In the Indian Premier League, Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings and Shubman Gill will clash between Gujarat Titans. This match will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. This is the first match of both teams in IPL 2025. In such a situation, both will try to start their campaign with winning.

Punjab Kings are a completely different team this season. Shreyas Iyer has been given the command of the team. At the same time, Ricky is the coach of the Ponting team. Iyer won the title of last season to KKR under his captaincy. He would now like to become Punjab Kings for the first time. At the same time, Shubman Gill will try to win the second title of IPL to Gujarat Titans.

Talking about the pitch of Narendra Modi stadium, the team that chases the target here wins more matches. Who will win the toss in Punjab and Gujarat too today, he can decide to bowl first. Opening pair is a matter of concern in the Punjab team. At the same time, the middle order in Gujarat is looking weak. Both teams have quality bowling.

The pitch of Narendra Modi stadium is suitable for batsmen. Even today, there can be a high scoring match here. Last season, Punjab Kings defeated Gujarat Titans at this ground. Even in today’s match, Punjab Kings are looking a bit heavy.

Talking about the weather, there is no chance of rain. Due to the new rules of IPL, now the dew is not getting much effect. Even after this, whatever team will win the toss today, they would like to bowl first, because it is considered easy to chase the target on this ground.

Possible playing XI of Gujarat Titans- Shubman Gill (captain), Jose Butler, Sai Sudarshan, Shah Rukh Khan, Glenn Philips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, famous Krishna and Mohammad Siraj.

Punjab Kings potential playing XI- Prabhasimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Nehal Vadhera, Marco Yansen, Lockey Ferguson, Arshdeep Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal.