It will be an emotional roller-coaster for Team India's superstar and maverick batter, Virat Kohli when he steps out on the ground at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi to face Afghanistan on October 11 (Wednesday). A homecoming for one of the world's greatest cricketers, who also has a pavilion named after him at the ground. In a video shared by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), KL Rahul quizzed Kohli on how he is feeling about the prospect of playing at his home ground.
"It's a homecoming for you, we are going to Delhi. I'm sure it's a very special feeling for you, you have grown up there and now you have a pavilion named after you so what's the feeling that you are going through?" Rahul asked Kohli.
Kohli explained it in an eloquent manner. While he admitted that it's a bit awkward to play on a ground with a pavilion named after him, he also described how the memories of playing at the venue are still fresh in his mind.
"The memories are always fresh in your mind when you go back into those moments, you can still feel it because that is where everything started, that is where the selectors for the first time and you got an opportunity. So it's always special to go back and play at the Arun Jaitley Stadium now. It's a bit awkward for me, playing in front of the pavilion named after me. Honestly, I don't like to talk about it a lot because it is a very awkward feeling but I just feel very grateful when I go back and see all the things that are present now and from where I started," said Kohli.
Kohli's record at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi is fantastic. The right-handed batter has played 12 matches across formats in Delhi and scored 779 runs at an average of 59.92 with the help of two centuries and three fifties. In seven ODIs he has played in Delhi, Kohli has scored 222 with the help of one century and as many half-centuries.
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