IND vs WI LIVE: Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli headline Team India’s FIELDING DRILL as Men in Blue undergo intense fitness session – Watch video
IND vs WI LIVE: Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli shedding sweats – Rohit Sharma has levelled up with fitness icon Virat Kohli after working behind the scenes at NCA. Ahead of the 1st T20 match of the West Indies tour of India, the Indian team underwent an intense training session which saw Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and the rest shedding sweats
Fitness has been an issue in the team after quite a few players took ill due to Covid. However, a top team like India, which tries to give everything in the field trains hard and is very evident from the video posted by the BCCI on social media platforms.
‘I am following specific programs. I want to stay injury-free. Injuries are bound to happen. You got to do whatever you can to prevent the injuries. It’s important to stay injury-free,’ Rohit Sharma said while stressing about his fitness in the press conference.
After inflicting a 3-0 clean sweep against the West Indies in the ODI series, India will take on West Indies in a 3-match T20I series commencing from tomorrow.
IND vs WI LIVE: Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli headline Team India’s FIELDING DRILL as Men in Blue undergo intense fitness session – Watch video
Rohit Sharma, the new skipper of the team in the limited format of the game is leading the team from the front and will be aiming another whitewash against the visiting team from the Caribbeans. The first T20 match begins tomorrow, 16th February at 7:30 P.M IST.
Earlier in the day, during the press conference, Rohit Sharma spoke about the team and played the role of a big brother for Virat Kohli, the former skipper of the team. The Indian batting despite having some of the key players of the world heavily relies on the performances of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. With Kohli going through a rough patch, Sharma spoke in his defense and asked the media to leave him alone.
- Virat Kohli is a fitness freak and the entire team envisions achieving the same fitness.
- Rohit Sharma worked very hard on his fitness after his recovery from his injury.
Replying to a query on whether the Men in Blue would look to give games to everyone in the squad, Rohit said: “Yeah, the idea is to identify the players who are going to play the World Cup, try and give them game time. There are a lot of players who are injured, come the World Cup, I do not know who is going to be fit, so we just have to get everyone ready for any situation.”
“We have a very packed schedule and injuries are bound to happen, it is important that we give guys who are going to fill those roles, enough gametime. It is important that we use this series and the next series that will follow after this, to our good potential and see whoever are likely to have, what they can offer us,” he added.
IND vs WI LIVE: Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli headline Team India’s FIELDING DRILL as Men in Blue undergo intense fitness session – Watch video
India T20I Squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Deepak Hooda.
West Indies T20I Squad: Kieron Pollard (captain), Nicholas Pooran (vice-captain), Fabian Allen, Darren Bravo, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell, Dominic Drakes, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, Brandon King, Rovman Powell, Romario Shepherd, Odean Smith, Kyle Mayers, Hayden Walsh Jr.
IND vs WI LIVE: Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli headline Team India’s FIELDING DRILL as Men in Blue undergo intense fitness session – Watch video