Fans will have to wait a long time to see Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma again.Image Credit source: PTI
The new year did not bring good news for the Indian team and it had to face defeat in the very first series. Team India, which started 2026 with the ODI series against New Zealand, suffered a crushing defeat by 1-2 at home. This is New Zealand’s first ODI series win in India. While this defeat was surprising and heartbreaking for the fans of Team India, this series also brought disappointment for them because this was the last match of the team’s two biggest stars Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma because now Team India will not play ODI cricket for the next few months.
Played in Indore on Sunday 18th January India and New Zealand Rohit and Virat came on the field in the last ODI match. In terms of performance, this match was not good for Rohit Sharma and he was out after scoring only 11 runs but Virat Kohli continued his excellent form and scored another century. Virat played an excellent inning of 124 runs but it was not enough for the team to win. Team India had to face defeat by 41 runs and the series also went out of their hands.
When will Virat and Rohit return?
In this way, this proved to be the last match of both of them in the current season because both of them are not a part of the T20 series to be held after this, while they will not be seen in the T20 World Cup also. Virat and Rohit have retired from Test and T20 cricket. In such a situation, we will have to wait for the next ODI series to see both of them again. But when and where is Team India’s next series? So let us tell you that the fans will have to wait for full 6 months to see both of them again in the blue jersey of the Indian team.
The next ODI series of the Indian team will be held directly in July 2026, when Team India will tour England. This tour will start from July 1 with a series of 5 T20 matches. After this, the 3 ODI match series will start from 14th July. That means, after 6 months, we will get a chance to see the wonders of these two great batsmen of ODI cricket.
But here you will see the magic of batting
But it is not that the fans of Kohli and Rohit will not be able to see them playing again in these 6 months. For this he will have to wait only for 2 months because the new season of IPL will start at the end of March. IPL 2026 will start from March 26, where Virat Kohli will enter as the defending champion for the first time. Last year, in the 18th season of the league, Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore won the title for the first time. Kohli played a big role in this by scoring more than 600 runs. The kind of form Virat is in, the fans will hope that he continues this amazing performance in IPL as well. The Hitman, who won 5 IPL titles as captain, will once again play with his team Mumbai Indians. He may not be the captain but with his bat he would like to end the team’s drought that has been going on for 5 years.