Team India’s star cricketer Virat Kohli reached Mumbai on November 25 ahead of the three-match home ODI series against South Africa. The former captain greeted the paparazzi and also clicked pictures with his fans.
India has reached the last day of the Test series ending on 26 November. The ODI series starts from Sunday 30 November. Three matches will be played in the ODI series and this will be followed by the T20 series.
Virat Kohli has returned to India and remains one of the stalwart names of the team, and the team will be more reliant on experienced cricketers in the absence of captain Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer in the South Africa series.
Virat Kohli welcoming paparazzi at the airport
Star Indian cricketer Virat Kohli arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday, November 25, ahead of the upcoming three-match home ODI series against South Africa. The former captain welcomed the paparazzi at the airport.
Kohli was seen wearing a checkered flannel shirt and black trousers, while he also wore a gray cap and black sunglasses. Many fans came to him for selfies and cricketers also came out of their cars to pay their respects.
The veteran Indian cricketer immediately came out of his black Range Rover SUV and posed for his fans. The video of the entire viral incident has been posted on the Instagram channel of famous photojournalist Viral Bhayani.
the king is Back.
Touchdown Mumbai for Virat Kohli@sports_tak pic.twitter.com/WZghwG8c3P– Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) 25 November 2025
Virat Kohli will play in India for the first time after IPL
Indian legend Virat Kohli was last seen in action last month, when India toured Australia for a three-match ODI series. He recorded back-to-back ducks in the first two matches of the series and then bounced back with an unbeaten century which led them to victory.
He, along with former captain Rohit Sharma, are among the two players who are trying to retain their places in the Indian ODI team with their aim to represent India at the 2027 ICC ODI World Cup to be hosted by South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
The South Africa ODI will be the first time since IPL 2025 that Kohli will return to India for competitive cricket. This will be his return to international cricket in India after almost 10 months, as he last played against England in January.
Virat Kohli’s Under-19 teammate urges his return to Test cricket
Kohli announced his retirement from T20Is, but what impressed everyone was his sudden Test retirement announcement at the beginning of his WTC cycle. Kohli’s U19 teammate Srivatsa Goswami believes he has retired from the wrong format.
Goswami wrote on X, “Ideally, Virat should have quit playing ODIs and continued playing Test cricket until he had nothing to offer. Test cricket misses him. Not just as a player but the energy he brought, the love and passion he brought to play for India, where he made the team believe they could win in any conditions.”
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