Image Source : BCCI Virat Kohli throughout a coaching session on the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
Captain Virat Kohli led a vigorous coaching session because the Indian staff on Sunday seemed to get used to the swinging pink ball and a swanky area in Motera forward of the Day/Night Test towards England beginning Wednesday.
The four-match collection is at present tied at 1-1 with the guests successful the primary Test in Chennai by 227 runs, and India coming again strongly with a 317-run triumph within the second recreation on the similar venue.
Eager to seal the destiny of the rubber with one other victory, the house staff gamers did stretching workout routines, fielding drills earlier than hitting the nets on the new Sardar Patel Stadium, the world’s greatest cricket venue with a staggering capability of 1,10,000 spectators.
The huge weapons — skipper Kohli, his deputy Ajinkya Rahane, the flamboyant Rohit Sharma and the swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant — batted within the nets because the likes of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj ran in and examined themselves underneath the blazing solar.
Pace spearhead Bumrah is bracing for a comeback after lacking the second match at Chepauk and the seasoned Ishant Sharma, who’s standing on the cusp of enjoying in his one centesimal Test, was additionally seen in motion.
While the spinners could have accounted for the majority of wickets within the first two Tests of the continuing collection, the Indian pacers took all 20 wickets to win their solely earlier day-night pink ball match on house soil, towards Bangladesh in Kolkata.
Openers Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal additionally had a success on the nets, with the Punjab batsman once more on the point of pair up with Rohit on the high of the order within the upcoming match.
The spinners — Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav — too rolled their arms over. The first two are set to play at the same time as India ponder leaving out the chinaman bowler protecting the swinging pink ball in thoughts.
The BCCI launched a small clip of the coaching session whereas the native physique — Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) — captured the moments because the gamers went although the drills.
As the 2 groups began their coaching in full swing, the gamers could not cease raving concerning the stadium whose dressing rooms, amazingly sufficient, are related to the fitness center.
President Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to observe the upcoming Test match with Union Home Minister Amit Shah after inaugurating the brand new stadium.
India’s globe-trotting cricketers have already expressed their awe on the new facility.
