Rohit and Kohli function in first coaching camp forward of Bangladesh two-match take a look at collection

India started its preparations for the two-match Take a look at collection towards Bangladesh on the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on Friday.

The opening sport commences right here at Chepauk on September 19, and it’ll kickstart a winter of gruelling schedule within the longest format for Rohit Sharma’s males.

Within the subsequent 4 months, India will play ten matches towards three opponents and look to seal its third straight World Take a look at Championship closing berth.

After the second Take a look at towards Bangladesh in Kanpur, India will host New Zealand for a three-match collection subsequent month. In November, the workforce will journey to Australia for 5 Assessments because it chases a hat-trick of collection victories Down Beneath and in addition retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy it has held since 2017.

The entire squad, barring Sarfaraz Khan – who’s taking part in within the Duleep Trophy – sweated it out within the center for shut to 5 hours beneath the watchful eyes of the teaching employees. 

Newly appointed bowling coach and former South African pacer Morne Morkel had his first day within the workplace and keenly noticed the session all through the day.

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Within the morning session, Rohit, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Shubman Gill obtained going, batting on the follow pitches on both facet of the principle sq.. Later, Ravindra Jadeja and R. Ashwin joined in for a prolonged session within the center after their bowling stints.

Equally, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj additionally labored on sharpening their batting abilities, spending greater than half an hour within the center. 

There have been near 12 web bowlers, together with thriller spinner Varun Chakravarthy and Tamil Nadu left-arm spinners S. Ajith Ram and M. Siddharth, serving to the house workforce’s batters put together to deal with the likes of Shakib Al Hassan and Taijul Islam. The pacers included home gamers like Arpit Guleria, Gurnoor Brar, Yudhvir Singh, Vaibhav Arora and Simarjeet Singh.

One of many follow pitches was of a black soil sort with fairly pronounced footmarks. The spinners operated totally on this strip, whereas the pacers bowled predominantly on the crimson soil floor on the different facet of the sq..

Within the afternoon session, the second batch of Okay.L. Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Rishabh Pant and Axar Patel took to the center, whereas pacers Yash Dayal and Akash Deep bowled with Morkel maintaining a eager eye on them.

Bangladesh travels to India following a historic 2-0 sweep of Pakistan earlier this month within the latter’s yard and can look to present the hosts a stiff problem.