Gautam Gambhir Reaction on Rohit-Kohli Batting Practice: The Indian team is playing a three-match bilateral ODI series against Sri Lanka. This is Gautam Gambhir’s first ODI series as head coach. After the T20 World Cup 2024, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are returning to international cricket after a month. India played its first ODI match on 2 August. Before which the Indian players sweated a lot during net practice. In this net practice, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were seen demonstrating explosive batting.
Gautam Gambhir was surprised to see Rohit and Kohli batting
Before the first ODI match, the team players practiced hard at the R Premdas Stadium ground, and Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma caught everyone’s attention with their explosive batting in the nets. Both the batsmen thrashed the bowlers, seeing which even the team’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir was surprised.
Indian team’s head coach Gautam Gambhir kept a close eye on the practice of these two batsmen. He looked deeply at every aspect of their batting and was extremely impressed with their form.
T20I Series
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— BCCI (@BCCI) August 1, 2024
Shreyas Iyer was seen bowling spin to the batsmen
During this practice session, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer also practiced batting. Apart from this, Kuldeep Yadav and Harshit Rana also practiced bowling in the nets. Shreyas Iyer also bowled spin to the batsmen, which gave the players a chance to practice variety.
India clean sweeps Sri Lanka in T20 series
India’s tour of Sri Lanka began with a T20 series on 27 July, in which India won the first T20 match by 43 runs. In the second T20, India won by seven wickets in a rain-affected match. In the third match, India won the series 3-0 by registering a thrilling win in the super over.
India’s playing XI for the first ODI against Sri Lanka
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj
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