Mohali Test Match: Former Captain Virat Kohli Reached Chandigarh
Mohali Test Match: Former captain Virat Kohli reached Chandigarh, a new record will be added to his name in Mohali.
Former Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli has reached Chandigarh. He reached Chandigarh by chartered plane.
This Test will be very important for Virat Kohli, he is going to play his 100th match at the Mohali Stadium.
The first match of the Test series between India and Sri Lanka will be played from 4 to 8 March at the Cricket Stadium Mohali.
Virat Kohli, who made his Test debut in the year 2011, has scored 7962 runs in 99 Test matches at an average of more than 50 and in the 100th Test match, he can become 8 Hazari as well as complete 18th century.
Virat Kohli will get a chance to play the 100th Test match at the IS Bindra Cricket Stadium in Mohali, in which the Indian team defeated Pakistan in the 2011 World Cup semi-final.
At the same time, the second test match will be played between India and Sri Lanka in Bangalore.
Players will do net practice from today.
The players for the Indian team sweated a lot after reaching the stadium on Friday, but they did not do the net practice. The team will do net practice after 1 pm today.
Earlier, the time of net practice was kept at 12 noon, but due to rain, its schedule was changed.
Team players Shubman Gill, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Hanuma Vihari, Jayant Yadav, Saurabh Kumar, and Mayank Agarwal will do the net practice.
In view of the threat of Covid-19, the match to be held at Mohali PCA Stadium is being held in the bio bubble.
In such a situation, strictness is being taken during the practice session in the stadium. Special care is taken at the time of arrival and departure of players.
Local players will practice for Team India.
The special thing has been that 11 players of Punjab Cricket Association have been included to get the team to do the net practice of batting, these players have also been kept in the Bobble by PCA.
Ramandeep, Sahil Khan, Harry Dhaliwal, Lovedeep, Abhinav Sharma, Rohit Kumar, Prince Balbant Rai, Aryaman Singh, Gaurav Chaudhary, Tejpreet Singh, and Saksham are involved in the practice session.
These players are very excited to participate in the practice session.
The Sri Lanka team has also reached Chandigarh.
At the same time, 10 players of the Sri Lanka Test team have also reached Chandigarh on Friday.
These players include Ajantha Madurasinghe, Darshana Gamage, Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dimuth Karunaratne, Suranga Lakmal, Avishka Gunawardene, Prabhat Kumarage, Vishwa Fernando, and Lasith Embuldenia.
Two players will join the team on February 28. They will be allowed to practice only after their quarantine time is over.
