Overview
- Virat Kohli shared a New Year photo with Anushka Sharma captioned “Stepping into 2026 with the light of my life,” which quickly drew widespread attention.
- The image showed half-painted faces, with Kohli styled like Spiderman and Anushka featuring a butterfly design.
- DDCA president Rohan Jaitley told PTI that Kohli is set to play for Delhi against Railways on January 6 at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
- Kohli hit 131 and 77 in his two Vijay Hazare outings and became the fastest to 16,000 List A runs in his 330th innings, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s 391.
- Reports say the ODI squad assembles in Vadodara by January 8 with the New Zealand series starting January 11, and that Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah are likely to be rested under workload management ahead of the T20 World Cup beginning February 7.