Team India is currently in England preparing for the World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand, followed byไ the f🍎ive-match Test series against the hosts.
Considering it’s an almost four months-long tour, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have allowed the🦩 cricketers to take their families and c🍎lose ones along with them.
Various Indian players – Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul , Jasprit Bumrah – have been sharing images from the picturesque Southampton and updating their fans about their campaign.
The BCCI also shared a video r🍸ecently featuring the contingent and their travel expedition vlog on Twitter so that the social media users could have a glimpse of their journey.
India contested an intra-squad encounter to adjus📖t to the conditions and put their skills to the test to prepare for the grand event. The BCCI chronicled the friendly game in a video format a𝕴nd uploaded it on Twitter on Saturday.
The snippet featured the whole team warming up with their running exercise post, which Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli batted against the likes of Bumrah and Mohammad Shami.
Ravichandran Ashwin also put h༺is tweakers and stock deliveries to use as the batsmen tried to read the surfꩲace.
The opening day ended with wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant dancing down the track nonchalantlꦚy and lofted the ball for a towering ℱsix.
Although India’s apex body didn’t reveal the final scorecard, it seemed that Pant had a wonderful day as he lifted his bat in the end.
“A good Day 1 at office for #TeamIndia at the intra-squad match simulation ahead of the #WTC21 Final,” the BCCI tweeted.
Here’s the video:
//twitter.com/BCCI/status/1403570720228085763
Meanwhile, the Kiwis are also getting accustomed to the conditions in England by pl💞aying a two-match Test series against the Three Lions before the start of the WTC final.
