Star Indian cricketer Virat Kohli touched base in Chennai ahead of the two-match Test series against Bangladesh. He boarded a direct flight from London to Chennai as the Indian team was reassembling for a mammoth home Test season. Kohli appeared at the Chennai airport under heavy police presence during the early hours of September 13, Friday. The 35-year-old had been in London with wife Anushka Sharma and children Vamika and Akaay Kohli, spending quality time with them away from India.
Kohli is slated to be back for national assignments after a break of more than a month from international cricket. He made an announcement of his retirement from T20I format just after the Indian cricket team lifted the T20 World Cup on June 29, 2012, in Barbados. However, upon his readmission into ODIs during India’s tour to Sri Lanka, he could not make an impact with bat but would like to contribute significantly towards the Indian side in this much-anticipated intercourse.
In Chennai, near the M Chidambaram Stadium, the Indian team would prepare for its trials before its series starts. Earlier this year, Kohli could not partake in the 5-match Test series because he was delivering his second child, Akaay. The last time he wore whites for India was in December-January during a 2-match Test series against South Africa and became the team’s top scorer.
Kohli’s last Test century came last year against West Indies when he reached his twenty-ninth score beyond the mark of one hundred runs in red ball cricket. Recently, people have raised concerns regarding Kohli’s form concerning Test matches; thus, everybody will be looking at him during his appearance on a filed where both Bangladesh teams would compete in two test matches starting September 19th.
Previously, this star batsman had fought six tests with Bangladesh and obtained 437 runs with commendable mean average ranks 54.62; within these runs was included one hundred runs over, two hundreds more and even one fifty too.
India squad for 1st Test against Bangladesh
Rohit Sharma (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Dayal.
