Ace India batter Virat Kohli has arrived in Baroda along with other members of the Indian cricket team. India will play the first of the three ODIs against New Zealand at the Kotambi Stadium, Vadodara, on January 11.
New Zealand will then play the next two ODIs on January 14 in Rajkot and January 18 in Indore. The two teams will then clash in five T20Is as well, which will be played from January 21 to 31.
Virat Kohli will try to add to his impressive record against New Zealand when India hosts the Black Caps for the next ODI series. The right-handed batsman has played 33 one-day internationals against New Zealand, amassing 1,657 runs at an average of 55.23 and a strike rate of 95.50, with nine half-centuries and six centuries.
Overall, the 37-year-old has played 308 ODIs for the Men in Blue, scoring 14,557 runs at an average of 58.46 and a strike rate of 93.65, with 76 fifties and 53 hundreds to his credit.
Meanwhile, after celebrating the New Year with his family in Dubai, Virat Kohli arrived in Mumbai on January 7, 2026, and left for Baroda the same day.
However, a huge crowd awaited Virat Kohli at the Baroda airport. Kohli was seen trying hard to make his way through a huge crowd at the venue as security kept crazy fans away from him. Virat Kohli seemed quiet and calm, occasionally forcing his way through the swarm.
Looking at the India roster, the Men in Blue have been reinforced by the return of skipper Shubman Gill and his deputy Shreyas Iyer, who both missed the previous ODI series against South Africa owing to injury.
Here’s the full India squad for the NZ series: Shubman Gill (C), Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Shreyas Iyer (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Arshdeep Singh
