Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has said that Virat Kohli failed to end his poor show in Delhi’s Ranji Trophy 2024-25 clash against Railways. However, he again added that the only saving grace was his not getting out to a delivery outside the off-stump as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “So many people had come for Kohli. They were waiting. On the first day, people were asking (Yash) Dhull and Sanat (Sangwan) to be given out as they had come to watch only Kohli. He played incoming balls well at the start. He got beaten on two consecutive away-going deliveries. Then he came to the other end, did a slight shimmy, hit a four down the ground, and then went forward similarly to the next ball, there was a gap between the bat and the pad, and he got bowled. The only solace was that he didn’t get out to an outside-off delivery.”

“He was getting out caught behind and got beaten by an incoming delivery this time. Of course, he is working towards something, so something was left lacking here. However, the heart was broken, there is no doubt about that. It’s the truth,” Chopra again shared.

Aakash Chopra also shared that Virat Kohli’s name got added to the list of Indian Test players who failed in the recent rounds of the Ranji
Trophy as well.

“The problem is that all our batters, barring Shubman Gill, I am talking about the main team players, haven’t scored runs, whether it was Rohit (Sharma), Yashasvi (Jaiswal), Virat Kohli now, KL Rahul or Rishabh Pant. They all went to play but no one scored runs. Only Shubman Gill scored a hundred in the second innings. Everyone else got out, including Virat Kohli,” Aakash Chopra concluded.