India Tour of South Africa: In the latest pictures shared by the official Twitter handle of the BCCI, Team India players can be seen ramping up their preparations with a central wicket practice session under a typical overseas overcast conditions at the SuperSport Park Cricket Stadium in Centurion. Follow India tour of South Africa Live on InsideSport.IN.
India Tour of South Africa: Team India ramp up preparations under overcast conditions ahead of Centurion Test, Check Pictures
While the likes of captain Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and KL Rahul grabbed the opportunity for “quality and intense” batting session under the watchful eyes of head coach Rahul Dravid, the pace unit also had a good go with the Kookaburra ball on the wicket which has grass all over it.
📸📸 from our training here today at SuperSport Park 🏟️#TeamIndia | #SAvIND pic.twitter.com/r5a890urkt
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 20, 2021
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 20, 2021
Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli, like the first day of the training session, worked closely again, and the former was seen working on the batting stance of the 33-year-old who hasn’t scored an international hundred since November 2019.
Wriddhiman Saha and Rishabh Pant, apart from their batting drills, also worked hard on fine-tuning their wicketkeeping skills. One of the pictures show Rishabh Pant making a beautiful dive on his left.
Earlier in the day, a video from the training session was released. The start of the video shows, Rahul Dravid declaring that the next three days of the training session were going to be crucial.
#TeamIndia had an intense nets session 💪🏻 at SuperSport Park 🏟️ in the build up to the first #SAvIND Test.
Here’s @28anand taking you closer to all the action from Centurion. 👍 👍
Watch this special feature 🎥 🔽https://t.co/Dm6hVDz71w pic.twitter.com/qjxnBszmDa
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 20, 2021
India landed in South Africa on Thursday and are aiming to win their first-ever Test series in South Africa. The first match of the 3-Test series will be played from December 26 in Centurion.
South Africa have played 26 Tests at the venue winning 21 and losing only two of them. India have played two matches and have lost on both occasions.
India Tour of South Africa: Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul fine-tune batting skills in net session, Check Pictures
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