India vs South Africa: Ahead of the three-match Test series between India and South Africa starting with the Boxing Day Test at Centurion from December 26, Team India players enjoyed a fun barbecue night in South Africa. Mayank Agarwal, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara and KL Rahul along with head coach Rahul Dravid, batting coach Vikram Rathor, bowling coach Paras Mhambrey and physio Nitin Patel attended the barbecue night at the Irene Country Lodge resort.
New Delhi. Indian cricketers Mayank Agarwal, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara and KL Rahul had a barbecue night out with head coach Rahul Dravid among others at Centurion on Tuesday. enjoyed. Along with the cricketers, batting coach Vikram Rathor, team physio Nitin Patel and some other support staff members also participated in the party. It was a large lawn, where players and support staff were enjoying a barbecue night. Many cricketers have shared pictures of this barbecue night on social media. When Virat Kohli is not seen in these pictures, fans are asking about the Test captain of Team India.
Before the start of the Test series between India vs South Africa, Mayank Agarwal and Ajinkya Rahane have shared two pictures each of this barbecue night. Mixed comments of fans are being seen on these pictures, but most fans are asking about Virat Kohli. Actually, after the removal of Virat Kohli from the captaincy of ODIs, the Test captain had an explosive press conference. In this, Virat Kohli had said some things about being removed from the captaincy. He had said that just one and a half hours before he was removed from the captaincy of ODIs, he got a call from the selector and he got information about this.
Earlier, Sourav Ganguly had issued a statement saying that Virat Kohli was forbidden to give up the T20 captaincy, but when he did not agree, the selectors decided that a limited overs cricketer cannot have two captains. In such a situation, Rohit Sharma was given the captaincy of limited overs in place of Virat. In the press conference, Virat had rejected Ganguly’s statement and said that no such thing had happened with him. After this the dispute between Virat Kohli and BCCI came to the fore. Now after not seeing Virat Kohli in the barbecue night on the South Africa tour, the fans have started questioning again.
Let us tell you that the Indian cricket team traveled from Mumbai to Johannesburg in a chartered plane. Team India is staying at African Pride Irene Country Lodge in Centurion. Teams of India and South Africa will play a 3-Test series from 26 December in Centurion, Johannesburg and Cape Town. At the same time, Paarl and Cape Town will host ODI matches from January 19. The upcoming Test and subsequent 3 ODIs will be played without fans after Cricket South Africa decided not to sell any tickets due to the fear of Kovid-19 in the country.
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All eyes will be on the new captain-coach combination of Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid as they begin a winning start by thrashing New Zealand 1-0 at home. But the challenge is definitely tougher in South Africa as India have not won any Test series in South Africa.