Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli made a comeback to the Indian Cricket Team after being rested for the opening two matches of the India vs Australia (IND vs AUS) ODI series. The players took an active part in the practice session and were spotted sweating hard in the nets before the final game of the series.
India has already wrapped the series with a convincing 2-0 win in the first 2 matches. Virat and Rohit who were rested in the opening 2 games joined the India team camp at Rajkot and toiled hard at the nets. Hardik Pandya and Mohammed Shami won’t play the game tomorrow. Axar Patel is yet to recover from his injury while Shubman Gill and Shardul Thakur will miss the game on account of workload management.
Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar too were spotted in the practice, training hard to regain their fitness ahead of a big match. Kohli returned to the nets after a while but looked in deft touch. Rohit spent his time discussing team strategy with head coach Rahul Dravid and also accessed the pitch conditions.
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“So I think preparation-wise, we have achieved quite a bit. Tomorrow’s game obviously allows us to again test ourselves in certain areas of the game, whether we can keep up with the consistency that we have, that we have shown in these last two games. There is a bigger goal, bigger picture in mind at this point in time. So focusing on that will be very crucial for us and not worry about whether [we] whitewash [Australia],” Rohit said in the press conference.
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“You got to play good cricket and you got to stay in the present. For us, you know, that is very critical. Everybody staying in the present, doing their job, putting the hand up when the team needs them to do it and things like that. So I think, I don’t think anyone will be worried about the rankings at this point because we have bigger things to worry about,” Rohit added.
