When the Indian team began training in Australia, skipper Virat Kohli attended the practice session for the longer format on Monday. After some intense fielding drills with Coach Shridhar on Saturday, the Indian captain spent some time with the bat against the Indian bowling attack.
Kohli faced Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj and Ravi Ashwin under the watchful eye of head coach Ravi Shastri. He shared the video of his practice on social media and wrote, “I love the test cricket practice sessions.”
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The BCCI also shared a video of Shami and Siraj bowling together on social media. While the former had a promising tour of Australia in 2018-19, the latter received an inaugural test call following their heroics at the recently concluded IPL 2020.
“The master and his apprentice. When @ MdShami11 and Siraj played together on # TeamIndia networks. Fast and accurate, ”wrote BCCI.
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The Indian cricket posted another video of Sanju Samson sweating on the networks. Samson has been named in the limited overs series against Australia, effective November 27. The Kerala hitter had a good time online when the BCCI wrote, “Clean and tidy from @IamSanjuSamson”.
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The team’s new vice-captain in the limited overs series, KL Rahul, also attended the practice session in Sydney. He had an excellent IPL season recently, winning the Orange Cap for scoring the most runs – 670 runs in the tournament. He has also returned to the test team.
Rahul was delighted to be back at the Indian camp. He wrote: “It’s good to be back in blue.”
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The India tour of Australia begins on November 27 with the 3-match ODI series followed by as many T20I. The last phase of the tour will be the 4-match test event, scheduled to begin on December 17 in Adelaide.
The four-game series will be part of the World Test Championship (WTC). India and Australia are in the top two places in the WTC standings
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