Virat Kohli's 14-Year-Old Tweet Resurfaces as Duleep Trophy Buzz Grows
After the Sri Lanka tour is over, the Indian cricket team is currently on a long break. Team India has to play its next international series against Bangladesh from September 19. That means Team India will be away from the field for more than 1 month. Meanwhile, many Indian cricketers will be seen trying their hand at domestic cricket.
At the same time, the Duleep Trophy is to be played between September 5 and September 22 in which young stars like KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill will be seen participating. Earlier there was news that senior players like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can also play in this tournament but ESPNcricinfo has clarified that both the players have no such intention.
Not only Rohit and Kohli but Jasprit Bumrah will also be on a long break from the Test series against Bangladesh. However, Rahul, Pant, Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Sarfaraz Khan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rajat Patidar and even Ishan Kishan, who have not been part of the national team since December last year and are also out of the central contract, will be seen playing in the four-team tournament starting September 5.
Meanwhile, an old tweet by Virat Kohli is going viral. Actually, on Monday, August 12, when the news of senior players playing in the Duleep Trophy broke out, Kohli's 14-year-old tweet went viral. Kohli had tweeted on 25 January 2010 and asked fans for best wishes for the Duleep Trophy.
Wish me luck for Duleep Trophy .....
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) January 25, 2010
Kohli had said- "Wish me luck for the Duleep Trophy." Fans are now commenting fiercely on this old tweet of King Kohli and are praying for him to play in this tournament.
Virat Kohli said goodbye to T20I cricket after winning the T20I World Cup 2024 title last month, after which it was expected that he could be seen playing in the Duleep Trophy. But now it is believed that he will directly play in the Test series against Bangladesh next month. The 2 Test match series between India and Bangladesh will be played from 19 September to 1 October.