The Border-Gavaskar Trophy has not even started yet, but even before that, Team India’s star batsman is in the headlines. He was constantly in the news due to his failure in the Test series against New Zealand and losing wickets in shocking ways. Despite this, the space he is getting in the Australian media has surprised everyone. Virat is seen on the front page of famous newspapers of Australia, which has become a reason for discussion. Apart from this, he also remains in the news because he arrived before the rest of the players of Team India. After all this, now the question on everyone’s mind is where did Virat disappear after reaching Australia?
Team India started practice
The reason why this question arose is also special. The first thing is that Team India has reached Perth, Australia for this series, where the first test match will be played from 22nd November. Team India reached here in different batches. 5 players including KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel had already reached Australia and were playing for India A. In such a situation, he reached Perth first. Then other players from India also reached Australia in the last 2 days in two different batches. Some of these players also started practicing from Tuesday 12th July.
KL Rahul was one of the main batters to have a net in India’s training session today at the WACA pic.twitter.com/3MXVU0p8FH
— Tristan Lavalette (@trislavalette) November 12, 2024
Now let’s talk about Virat Kohli. The former captain of Team India was not a part of any batch that left Mumbai on Sunday and Monday, in fact he had left for Perth a day before that. In such a situation, obviously he would have reached Australia before any other player. There was a lot of discussion on social media that Virat, who was struggling with poor form, reached Perth before other players with the intention of giving a strong performance in Australia.
Rishabh Pant and Yashasvi Jaiswal having a hit in the WACA nets. India’s first training session of their tour. No sign of Virat Kohli yet pic.twitter.com/mxXy0SqgcL
— Tristan Lavalette (@trislavalette) November 12, 2024
…but Virat Kohli was not seen
In such a situation, everyone was expecting that Virat Kohli would be seen from the beginning of Team India’s practice session. That’s not all. On Tuesday, 12 November, Team India practiced in the nets of the old WACA Stadium in Perth. During this, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul were seen batting for a long time, while Navdeep Saini, Akash Deep, Ravindra Jadeja were also seen preparing in the nets with the team. Only Virat Kohli was nowhere to be seen during this period.
But Virat Kohli reached Australia first??
Why not coming to practice sessions https://t.co/evxF0pgRBq
— Veer (@pullxshot) November 12, 2024
First To Reach Australia – Virat Kohli
First To Practice in Perth – Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Kl Rahul
pic.twitter.com/JJY6PGylBx— Sagar Mhatre (@MhatreGang) November 12, 2024
Obviously, in such a situation, everyone started asking the same question on social media, where has Kohli disappeared? In the kind of poor form Virat Kohli is going through, each practice session is important for him. Now the fans will hope that Virat definitely starts his preparations in the second practice session and shows good form in the first match of the series itself and rains runs so that the chances of victory of Team India become stronger.
