The Indian cricket team reportedly arrived in Thiruvananthapuram for their second and final warm-up fixture of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 on Sunday but without their star batter Virat Kohli who will join a day later.
While the India players flew from Guwahati to Thiruvananthapuram, Kohli took a flight to Mumbai due to personal reasons.
According to Cricbuzz, Kohli will link up with the squad on Monday when they have an optional training session.
“Team India will have an optional training session from 2 PM onwards at the KCA – St Xavier’s College Cricket Ground, Thiruvananthapuram, weather permitting,” the website quoted a team spokesperson as saying.
Kohli is gearing up for what will be the fourth ODI world cup of his storied international career. He won the title with the Indian team in 2011 and then went on to captain them last time around in England when they made a semifinal exit.
Ahead of the tournament, Kohli admitted that the past two-and-a-half years of his career have taught him a lot that includes a phase when he went without scoring a century in any form of cricket for nearly two years.
“The last two and a half years have taught me a lot. Those angry celebrations are a thing of the past. I have had many suggestions, lots of advice has come my way; people were telling me I was doing this wrong, that wrong,” Kohli told ICC.
“I picked out all the videos from the best time I had, same initial movement, same approach towards the ball and it was just what was happening inside my head, I wasn’t able to explain it to anyone,” he added.
The Indian team is scheduled to take on the Netherlands in a practice match on Tuesday but the weather forecast is not promising. As per reports, rain is expected to impact the fixture with fears of another washout.
India were scheduled to face England in Guwahati in their first warm-up match on Saturday but the contest was abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain.
The Indian team will take on Australia in their world cup opener in Chennai on October 8.
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