Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma shine – Here’s how other India players performed in VHT Round 1
The two veterans, who have retired from the T20I and Test formats, contributed in their teams’ victories. Delhi defeated Andhra by four wickets while Mumbai eased past Sikkim by eight wickets.
Rishabh Pant, Dhruv Jurel and Abhishek Sharma were among the others who played the opening round. Under-19 sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi cracked 190 off just 84 balls for Bihar against Arunachal Pradesh.
Ishan Kishan, on the high of winning the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy with Jharkhand and getting a call-up in India’s T20 World Cup squad, also struck a century off just 33 balls.
Here is how India internationals fared in the first round of the VHT:
- Rohit Sharma (MUM) – 155 (94b, 18×4, 9×6)
- Virat Kohli (DEL) – 131 (101b, 14×4, 3×6)
- Rishabh Pant (DEL) – 5 (9b)
- Nitish Kumar Reddy (AND) – 23 (21b, 1×4, 1×6) & 1/49
- Abhishek Sharma (PUN) – 48 (45b, 6×4, 2×6) & 1/29
- Ruturaj Gaikwad (MAH) – 1 (3b)
- Mohammed Shami (BEN) – 2/65
- Akash Deep (BEN) – 38 n.o. (24b, 2×4, 2×6) & 0/78
- Devdutt Padikkal (KAR) – 147 (118b, 10×4, 7×6)
- Sai Sudharsan (TN) – 48 (48b, 9×4)
- Dhruv Jurel (UP) – 80 (61b, 4×4, 4×6)
- Rinku Singh (UP) – 67 (48b, 6×4, 2×6) & 0/29
Results (Elite)
Group A (Ahmedabad)
Jharkhand 412/9 in 50 overs (Ishan Kishan 125, Virat Singh 88, Kumar Kushagra 63, Shikar Mohan 44, Abhilash Shetty 4/72) lost to Karnataka 413/5 in 47.3 overs (Devdutt Padikkal 147, Abhinav Manohar 56 n.o., Mayank Agarwal 54, Dhruv Prabhakar 40 no).
Tamil Nadu 310/7 in 50 overs (Pradosh Ranjan Paul 73, N. Jagadeesan 67, Sai Sudharsan 48, B. Indrajith 42) bt Pondicherry 209 in 46.5 overs (Neyan Kangayan 60, Gurjapneet Singh 4/32).
Madhya Pradesh 287/5 in 50 overs (Yash Dubey 103, Shubham Sharma 42 n.o.) bt Rajasthan 188 in 43.2 overs (Manender Singh 60).
Kerala 348/8 in 50 overs (Rohan Kunnummal 94, B. Aparajith 64, Vishnu Vinod 102 n.o.) bt Tripura 203 in 36.5 overs (Tejaswi Jaiswal 40, Sridam Paul 67, Aparajith 5/15).
Group B (Rajkot)
Uttar Pradesh 324/5 in 50 overs (Abhishek Goswami 81, Aryan Juyal 80, Dhruv Jurel 80, Rinku Singh 67) bt Hyderabad 240 in 43 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 53, Rahul Buddhi 47, Varun Goud 45, Zeeshan Ansari 4/31).
Chandigarh 208 in 39.5 overs (Tushar Joshi 42, Taranpreet Singh 43, Lone Nasir 4/44) lost to Jammu & Kashmir 209/0 in 37 overs (Qamran Iqbal 73 n.o., Shubham Khajuria 129 n.o.).
Assam 282 in 48.4 overs (Pradyun Saikia 67, Sumit Ghadigaonkar 55, Sibsankar Roy 55, Atit Sheth 4/56) lost to Baroda 283/5 in 47.5 overs (Priyanshu Moliya 72, Vishnu Solanki 88 n.o., Bhanu Pania 43 n.o.).
Vidarbha 382/5 in 50 overs (Aman Mokhade 110, Dhruv Shorey 136, R. Samarth 40) lost to Bengal 383/7 in 48.5 overs (Abishek Porel 56, Abhimanyu Easwaran 71, Sudip Gharami 68, Shahbaz Ahmed 71).
Group C (Jaipur)
Sikkim 236/7 in 50 overs (Ashish Thapa 79) lost to Mumbai 237/2 in 30.3 overs (Rohit Sharma 155).
Punjab 347/6 in 50 overs (Naman Dhir 97, Anmolpreet Singh 85, Prabhsimran Singh 60) bt Maharashtra 296/8 in 50 overs (Ramakrishna Ghosh 73, Prithvi Shaw 46).
Himachal Pradesh 259 in 47.3 overs (Innesh Mahajan 60, Pukhraj Mann 48, Devendra Bora 4/44) bt Uttarakhand 164 in 40.3 overs (Aanjaneya Suryavanshi 55, J. Suchith 51).
Chhattisgarh 233 in 48.5 overs (Amandeep Khare 76, Mayank Verma 64, Deepraj Gaonkar 4/35) lost to Goa 234/4 in 44.1 overs (Snehal Kauthankar 107 n.o.)
Group D (Bengaluru)
Andhra 298/8 in 50 overs (Ricky Bhui 122, Simarjeet Singh 5/54) lost to Delhi 300/6 in 37.4 overs (Priyansh Arya 74, Virat Kohli 131, Nitish Rana 77).
Odisha 345/6 in 50 overs (Swastik Samal 212, Biplab Samantaray 100) lost to Saurashtra 347/5 in 48.5 overs (Vishvarajsinh Jadeja 50, Gajjar Sammar 132 n.o., Prerak Mankad 47, Chirag Jani 86).
Services 184 in 42.2 overs (Arzan Nagwaswalla 4/34) lost to Gujarat 185/2 in 34.5 overs (Aarya Desai 77 n.o.).
Haryana 267/9 in 50 overs (Himanshu Rana 126, Parth Vats 57) lost to Railways 270/4 in 43.4 overs (Upendra Yadav 80, Ravi Singh 109 n.o.).
Plate Group (Ranchi)
Bihar 574/6 in 50 overs (Vaibhav Suryavanshi 190, Piyush Singh 77, Ayush Loharuka 116, Sakibul Gani 128 n.o.) bt Arunachal Pradesh 177 in 42.1 overs.
Nagaland 236 in 48.3 overs (Joshua Ozukum 74) lost to Manipur 241/9 in 49.5 overs (Ulenyai Khwairakpam 47, Pheiroijam Jotin 101 n.o.).
Meghalaya 291 in 49.5 overs (Arpit Bhatewara 104, Kishan Lyngdoh 106, Codanda Ajit Karthik 6/49) bt Mizoram 212 in 38.5 overs (Sahil Sharma 41, Joseph Lalthankhuma 64, Akash Choudhary 6/44).
Published on Dec 24, 2025
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