IND vs SA LIVE – Virat Kohli’s SUPER SPECIAL Practice Session: It’s been 26 months since Indian captain Virat Kohli has scored a ton in international cricket. It’s been lifetime that Indian cricket fans are waiting for a test series victory in South Africa. Both the waits can end as Johanesburg Test Starts today at 1.30PM. India is cusp on historic series victory and test skipper Virat Kohli wants to make it very special by scoring big in the match. Follow Johanesburg 2nd Test LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
Kohli had a SUPER-SPECIAL practice session under the watchful eyes of Coach Rahul Dravid. Playing his 99th test, Kohli sweated out for more than 2 hours in the nets.
The ususal fluency in his stokes and feet moment was there to be seen. Captain post the session posted pics by saying ‘NEW YEAR, SAME MOTIVATION’ clearly indicatiing the big one is not very far away.
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‘New year, same motivation’: Kohli sweats it out in training ahead of 2nd Test
New year, same motivation. pic.twitter.com/25PNy69kGJ
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) January 2, 2022
Will the Century Drought End? Like 2020, Kohli ended the year 2021 without scoring a century in international cricket as he departed for 18 in the second innings of the first Test against South Africa last week.
In 2020 also Kohli had failed to reach the triple-figure mark. The Indian skipper had last scored a ton in the day-night Test against Bangladesh at Eden Gardens in 2019.
Kohli has not scored an international century in 2019 & 2020 but will certainly look to start 2021 on a positive note
IND vs SA LIVE: Rahul Dravid says Kohli will score ‘BIG-RUNS’
Meanwhile, Team India head coach Rahul Dravid has backed skipper Kohli to have some “big runs” in the upcoming Tests against South Africa.
“In keeping the morale high (in South Africa) it has not been difficult as it has been led the skipper himself. Virat Kohli has been phenomenal over the last 20 days, the way he has trained he has practiced,” said Dravid on the eve of the second Test against South Africa.
The former Indian skipper said there are phases in cricketers’ careers when they are not able to replicate their past performance but added that it is just a matter of time for India’s middle order before they come good.
“There are a variety of factors that happens. There are phases in your career where you probably are batting well but big scores are not coming. And it happens with everyone, but the good point is that they seem to be batting really well so they are getting the starts,” said Dravid.
“They know how to convert it’s not that these guys don’t know how to score big runs. So it’s just a matter of time, I am really hoping we will see some really good performance in coming days,” he added.
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