Timesofindia.com in Dubai: About fifteen minutes before the team parked the team bus outside the ICC Academy in Dubai, Virat Kohli Went to the local manager and made some requests. The manager patiently listened to the star batter and went to the main entrance. When he returned, there was a large paper bag from a popular food joint with some boxes of Kohli’s post-session food. While others packed their kit bags after more than three hours of intensive training, Kohli was filling fuel and even saved a box for the road.
This was the first hit of the Indian cricket team Champions Trophy And on 15 February, the side hit the ground after less than 12 hours after landing in Dubai. The session began with a unique drill, where a tennis ball was hit in the air and a player with a helmet, turned it back, his head and one of the surrounding fielders to catch it to earn a point to one of the surrounding fielders. Wawing. Some points and lots of fun and sports later, serious business was going on.
Kohli was one of the first batsmen to scratch the popping crease and had it Rohit Sharma And Hardik Pandya For the company in adjacent net. One had only throdows, the other featured Quick Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Shami, while the corner was more spin net with Ravindra Jadeja, Axer Patel and Kuldeep Yadav bowling. Pandya went to the bang-bang and Shreyas Iyer continued with a similar approach as both batting was going on. “Look at the ball, look at it, the ball coming,” the assistant staff kept warning for security personnel and media near ropes as the big hits did not stop.
Ball experience
The adjacent nets were calm on that front because both Kohli and Rohit were happy to realize the ball. There were no delivery for Kohli in that outside channel because most of the stump line was fed in the right hand. Some creaming flixes, on-drives and lofted drives later, he increased into confidence and even showed its limit with back-foot. The crisp bridge and slash square performed by the wicket as he batted close to an hour. Similarly, Rohit was happy to feel in the middle of the blade and even tested on some occasions by Arshadeep Singh’s upcoming delivery and topical Yorker.
Throughout the session, the intensity of both batsmen and bowlers did not fall an inch as Arshdeep and Shami bowled closely for an hour on full inclination, and the batsmen were also on him while turning on different surfaces. Head coach Gautam Gambhir was deployed just behind the net as action was revealed and there was a moment of concern in the afternoon Rishabh Pant Was drilling his wicketkeeping.
Pant’s shock
A Pandya Slash Pants Hit on left knee And he was on the ground the next moment.
The physio and the medical team raced to give him an immediate attention to enter the pain. It was the same knee that was very damaged during the frightening accident a few years ago and required immediate ice treatment by a shock with pants flat on the ground. After some time, he climbed on his feet and moved to the rope before he was interrupted by Pandya, who examined and hugged him. After some more treatment, the pants had a heavily tied to their knee.
All this, while Pant kept smiling and started padding for a hit for everyone’s surprise. He reached the nets, but did not affect his big hitting. The left -handed batsman batted without any visible inconvenience, but when he made a way to return to the change room, he was sad. When he continued even after riding in the team’s bus, but Muskan never left his face. Pants as always!
Arshdeep’s Zen Mode
However, some unusual, occurred as Arshdeep at the end of the session, after a long time, switched to Zen mode when he took out a book and began to read. Other people around him kept spicy and making noise, but the young man was so engrossed in his book that he left only the chair when the manager indicated the players to start walking in the bus.
On the expected lines, a huge crowd had gathered to catch a glimpse of their favorite stars and Kohli had to dig up his dining box to sign an autograph for waiting fans, who finally had the team to hotel I created an atmosphere before going back in. ,
