Shashi Tharoor on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: In the year 2025, Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli is not the most searched player on Google, but 14 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has been the most searched player. This shows that his batting has now become a fan not only in India but all over the world. There is only one question from cricket fans to former cricketers that when will Vaibhav, who has proved himself in international cricket from domestic to junior level, get a place in Team India?

Vaibhav Suryavanshi played explosive innings in Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi, playing for Bihar in the first match of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26, played a explosive innings and he is once again in the headlines. Vaibhav played a brilliant inning of 190 runs against Arunachal Pradesh in just 84 balls with the help of 16 fours and 15 sixes. After this inning, another face has been included among the fans of Vaibhav. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on social media that when will Vaibhav Suryavanshi get a place in Team India?

The last time a fourteen year old showed such prodigious cricketing talent, it was Sachin Tendulkar — and we all know what became of him. What are you waiting for? Vaibhav Suryavanshi for India!@imAagarkar @GautamGambhir @bcci @sachin_rt https://t.co/BK9iKqBGV2

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 24, 2025

Shashi Tharoor said – Sachin had done such a feat at the age of 14

Shashi Tharoor has posted on his ex (earlier Twitter) about the explosive innings played by Vaibhav Suryavanshi in the very first match of Vijay Hazare Trophy. Tharoor wrote in the post, ‘The last time a 14-year-old player showed tremendous talent in cricket, it was Sachin Tendulkar. We know what they did. What are you waiting for? Vaibhav Suryavanshi for India!

Tharoor has also tagged BCCI Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar, Head Coach Gautam Gambhir, BCCI and Sachin Tendulkar in his post. Let us tell you that Sachin Tendulkar made his debut for Team India at the age of 16 years and 205 days, but he scored his first century for Mumbai at the age of 14. For this reason Vaibhav Suryavanshi is being compared to Sachin.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 season will be historic, because Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are going to make a comeback in it. Especially if we talk about Virat Kohli, he will be playing a match in Vijay Hazare Trophy after 15 years. Virat last played against Services in February 2010, in which he scored 16 runs for Delhi. But when and how many matches will ‘King Kohli’ be seen playing in the 2025-26 season? Here you will get the answer to this question.

When will Virat Kohli play?

Virat Kohli is going to play only 2 matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 season. He will be a part of the playing eleven of Delhi team in the first match against Andhra on 24th December. Earlier this match was to be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, but now it is reported that Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has changed the venue of this match to BCCI’s Center of Excellence.

Virat will play his second match in Vijay Hazare Trophy against Gujarat on 26th December. KSCA has also changed the venue of Delhi vs Gujarat match to BCCI Center of Excellence. Virat Kohli will now play both his matches at BCCI’s Center of Excellence. Let us tell you that there are total 3 grounds in this centre.

• 24 December – Delhi vs Andhra
• 26 December – Delhi vs Gujarat

Virat Kohli’s record in Vijay Hazare Trophy

Virat Kohli has played a total of 13 matches in his Vijay Hazare Trophy career, in which he has scored 819 runs at an excellent average of 68.25. Kohli also has 4 centuries and three half-centuries in his name in this tournament. Rishabh Pant and Ishant Sharma are also included in Delhi’s squad for Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26.

Delhi squad for Vijay Hazare Trophy: Rishabh Pant (captain), Virat Kohli, Arpit Rana, Ayush Badoni (vice-captain), Ayush Doseja, Divij Mehra, Harsh Tyagi, Hrithik Shaukeen, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Nitish Rana, Priyansh Arya, Prince Yadav, Rohan Rana, Sarthak Ranjan, Simarjeet Singh, Tejashwi Dahiya (wicketkeeper), Vaibhav Kandpal, Yash Dhull Anuj Rawat (stand-by)

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BCCI Implements New Rule For Team India Players: A 5-match T20 series is being played between India and South Africa. Before this, Team India has also played a series of 2 Test and 3 ODI matches with the South African team. At the same time, now the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has taken a big decision during the T20 series. BCCI has issued a new order for the players of ODI and T20 team, under which, all the players of ‘White Ball Format’ will have to play at least 2-2 matches in an important domestic tournament and this rule will be applicable for junior as well as senior players.

BCCI issued orders for players

According to media reports, BCCI, taking a big decision, has issued an order for all the players of India’s ODI and T20 team. In this order, all the players have been asked to play at least two matches in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. This decision has been taken to maintain the match fitness of the players and to strengthen domestic cricket. Vijay Hazare Trophy is an important domestic List A tournament of Indian cricket, which is going to start from December 24, 2025. This decision has been taken especially keeping in mind those senior players who have not been able to play domestic cricket for a long time due to international schedules. Under this rule of BCCI, whenever a central contract player is free from national duty, it will be mandatory for him to participate in the domestic tournament. With this, not only will the players be able to practice matches continuously, but young players of domestic cricket will also get a chance to learn from their seniors.

Rohit-Virat will also take part in Vijay Hazare Trophy

This year, Vijay Hazare Trophy i.e. List-A tournament is going to run from December 24, 2025 to January 18, 2026, in which Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are scheduled to play. Because Virat has already informed Delhi Cricket Association about his availability. According to reports, he is going to play two matches. At the same time, Virat played his last match in Vijay Hazare Trophy 16 years ago in 2010. On the other hand, Rohit Sharma will also be seen playing in this tournament. Rohit last played in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on October 17, 2010.