Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli turned their much-awaited returns to the Vijay Hazare Trophy into a stroll in the park on Tuesday, December 24. While Rohit smashed a 94-ball 155 to lead Mumbai’s successful chase of 237 against Sikkim in Jaipur, Virat Kohli, the original chase master, was at his imperious best again, hammering 131 off 101 balls for Delhi against Andhra in Bengaluru.
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Both made it look alarmingly easy.
In one sense, it was a win-win for the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the two modern-day greats. The board got eyeballs on domestic cricket by persuading Rohit and Kohli to turn up for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, while the players, in return, banked valuable match practice ahead of India’s upcoming one-day international series against New Zealand, starting January 11.
But at no point was a white-ball domestic fix
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