New Delhi: Team India will face Bangladesh in the two-match Test series starting September 19. The Indian players have reached Chennai and have already started preparations for the busy Test season.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted a video of the team’s practice on Saturday, September 14. Likes of Kuldeep Yadav, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja were seen practising hard in the nets.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli also looked in great touch with the bat during the net session. Both cricketers last featured in the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka where Rohit had a good series with the bat but Kohli struggled against Lankan spinners.
Preps in full swing here in Chennai! 🙌
Inching closer to the #INDvBAN Test opener ⏳#TeamIndia | @IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/F9Dcq0AyHi
— BCCI (@BCCI) September 14, 2024
The Indian skipper is the second-highest run-scorer from the team in the ongoing cycle of the World Test Championship (WTC). He has played nine Test matches and scored 700 runs at an average of 46.66, with three hundreds and three fifties.
Kohli missed India’s previous five-match Test series against England and in his absence, the team management opted for multiple combinations in the middle order. He last played Test cricket for India during the Test series against South Africa.
Kohli needs 58 runs to break Tendulkar record
Kohli is just 58 runs away from breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s record to become the fastest cricketer to score 27,000 runs in international cricket.
Tendulkar scored 27,000 runs in 623 innings and if he manages to score 58 runs in the next 8 innings, Kohli will become the fastest batsman to achieve the milestone. The star Indian batter will also become the first cricketer in the 147-year history of international cricket to reach 27,000 runs in less than 600 innings.
Kohli has played 125 T20I matches and scored 4,188 runs. In Test cricket, he has scored 8,848 runs in 113 matches. He has amassed 13,906 runs in 295 ODI matches.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma and star batter Virat Kohli looked in great touch ahead of the 1st Test match against Bangladesh in Chennai. Cricket Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
