Virat Kohli reportedly flew back home from Guwahati and is set to join the Indian team in Thiruvananthapuram for their second ICC World Cup 2023 warm-up game against Netherlands later.
India’s first warm-up match against England in Guwahati was called off on September 30 after no ball was bowled. strong>The Indian team was scheduled to fly to Thiruvananthapuram for his second warm-up match against England. In the Netherlands on October 3rd.
Virat Kohli was forced to take a detour until the team reached the coastal city of Kerala. According to a Cricbuzz report, Kohli flew back from Guwahati due to a “personal emergency”.
However, he is not scheduled to miss India’s warm-up match against the Netherlands and is expected to join the squad soon. According to a report in Cricbuzz, a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) official said, “Virat will rejoin the team soon.”
The weather in Thiruvananthapuram was also not ideal. The first warm-up match between South Africa and Afghanistan here on September 29 passed without a ball being thrown, but the second match between Australia and the Netherlands on September 30 was initially reduced to 23-a-side. After that, he was forced to run. Out in 15 overs of the second innings
Both India and the Netherlands will be hoping that the weather gods bend on October 3 and give their players some much-needed playing time before the main event begins.
Kohli has performed reasonably well in ODIs this year, scoring 612 runs at an average of 55.6, including two fifties and three hundreds. India will bank on their genius and expertise in the World Cup format.
In the last World Cup, Kohli had scored 443 runs, including five innings of 55.4 runs, but never crossed the triple-digit mark. In fact, Kohli has only scored his second century in his 26 World Cup matches so far and he would like to add to that record as he approaches 50 ODI hundreds (currently 47 years old) .
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