Overview
- Virat Kohli hit 131 off 101 balls to lead Delhi past Andhra by four wickets and became the fastest to 16,000 List A runs in 330 innings, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s 391.
- Rohit Sharma cracked a career-fast 62-ball List A hundred en route to 155 off 94 as Mumbai chased 237 in 30.3 overs for an eight-wicket win over Sikkim before a crowd reported at around 12,000 in Jaipur.
- Kohli’s game was staged behind closed doors at the BCCI Centre of Excellence after a Karnataka government committee denied Chinnaswamy Stadium permission, and key fixtures were not televised or streamed live.
- The board later posted low-quality highlight clips on its BCCI Domestic handle, drawing fan criticism over limited access to the star-studded return.
- Across the tournament’s opening day there were 22 centuries, including Bihar’s 574/6 and 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s 190, while Karnataka’s 413/5 against Jharkhand ranked as the second-highest successful List A chase.