DDCA secretary Ashok Sharma urged Virat Kohli to participate in Delhi's Ranji Trophy matches, suggesting he take inspiration from Mumbai players like Rohit Sharma, who recently trained with Mumbai's squad despite not confirming his match participation.

Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Harshit Rana are three players from Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 squad who are named in Delhi's Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recently conducted a review meeting in Mumbai to assess the Indian cricket team's performance in the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 where they they went down to Australia by 3-1 and subsequently failed to qualify for the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 final.