A high BCCI official mentioned that India’s Test captain Virat Kohli has not made any formal request for a break from the ODI leg of the upcoming tour of South Africa.
Kohli will lead India in a three-Test sequence beginning December 26 at Centurion and ending with the third and ultimate Test in Cape Town on January 15. The three-match ODI sequence will begin from January 19.
After vice-captain Rohit Sharma was dominated out attributable to a recurring left hamstring harm, experiences have surfaced that Kohli will take a break to spend a while together with his younger household.
“As of now, Kohli has not despatched any formal request to BCCI President Sourav Ganguly or Secretary Jay Shah to skip ODI. If one thing is set at a later date or God forbid, he will get injured, that is a distinct matter,” a senior BCCI official for improvement instructed PTI on situations of anonymity.
“The situation is today, he is playing three ODIs on January 19, 21, 23,” he mentioned.
The official additionally mentioned that the households of all gamers are additionally touring to South Africa on the identical constitution flight because of the bio-bubble restrictions.
“The captain is traveling with his family. But yes, if he feels tired after the Test series and wants to take a break, he will definitely inform the chairman and secretary (Shah) of the selection committee, who is the convener of the selection committee,” the supply mentioned.
One cause for the present hypothesis might be that when India are again dwelling, they are going to once more be inside an prolonged bubble for 3 weeks as Sri Lanka approaches for Tests and T20 Internationals.
There have been some experiences that Kohli would possibly take a go away attributable to his daughter Vamika’s first birthday (January 11).
Kohli will play his a centesimal Test match on that day. The ODI sequence is ranging from January 19.
Kohli has been an advocate of workload administration in bubble life, which he feels shouldn’t be sustainable in the long term as it will probably take a toll on one’s psychological well being.
Over the previous yr, he has been on paternity go away throughout the 2020-21 Australia sequence and throughout the three T20 Internationals in opposition to New Zealand at dwelling.
And now, it stays to be seen whether or not Kohli takes a break in South Africa or is extra prone to skip the T20I sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka at dwelling.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
