Former India player turnd veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has added that Virat Kohli’s massive fan following during Delhi’s Ranji Trophy 2024-25 match against Railways shows his aura. He also added that there were lengthy queues to get into the stadium and the stand was completely occupied too.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, Virat Kohli reached the Delhi ground, the Arun Jaitley Stadium, to play a match after 12 years, and what a welcome Delhi gave him. Only one stand was open and there was no place left in that. The lines were two kilometers long. You have to agree that the guy has an aura, and that aura was seen. I am requesting Rohan Jaitley with folded hands to open one or two more stands because Kohli’s batting is about to come. Delhi’s one batter has gotten out (by the end of the first day), so his batting will come. The entire ground might get filled.”

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In the same video, Aakash Chopra referred to Virat Kohli as ‘cricket’s greatest marketeer’.

“He is cricket’s greatest marketeer. He has gone to play a Ranji Trophy match, where 5000 people don’t come, and people were standing in queues from five o’clock in the morning. It is incredible. I saw a post on X that said it’s his era, his aura, and his area too. Absolutely right, he is Delhi’s boy. People have come through the turnstiles. To put it in context, when the Mumbai match happened in BKC (Bandra Kurla Complex), there isn’t much sitting provision here, a little bit was done, but Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur and Shivam Dube were there, but not enough people. There was a small gathering but this is a flood of people,” Aakash Chopra concluded.