Cuttack, Feb. 9 -- Delirium swept across Barabati Stadium at the sight of Virat Kohli, stepping on to the turf and heading straight to the nets for an extended session. This wasn't match day but the packed rafters said otherwise as the local administration opened the stands for locals to get a fill of their hero. Aware that every camera phone was trained on him, Kohli started knocking as Gautam Gambhir stood at the top of the nets.
Kohli didn't play in Nagpur due to a niggle. His last competitive match before that was for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy where he scored six runs before being bowled by Railways pacer Himanshu Sangwan.
Before that was another forgettable series in Australia where he kept getting poached outside off-stump. Kohli kn...