The camaraderie between the Indian cricket team players was quite clear as Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and KL Rahul was seen taking part in a Rapid Fire session where they revealed secrets of their teammates.
In a BCCI video with the caption “Who is always hungry? Who is a phone addict? Many fun facts about #TeamIndia on the sidelines of a headshot shoot”, the five cricketers were asked a number of questions about their teammates. In the video, they had to answer questions like “who is most likely to sleep anywhere?” and “Who is the biggest foodie in the team” with all of them coming up with interesting answers.
Here is the video of the same:
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While there was a popular choice that Rohit and Shikhar Dhawan are the ‘forgetful ones’, KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya were chosen as the ‘shopaholics’ of the team.
Following the T20I series that ended 1-1, Virat Kohli and his men will now be locking horns with Australia in the four-match Test series with the first encounter beginning on December 6 in Adelaide. Currently, they are playing a warm-up game against Cricket Australia XI in Sydney and they had a useful outing on Thursday with five of their batsmen hitting half centuries on Thursday against a Cricket Australia XI.
Virat Kohli (64) and teenage prodigy Prithvi Shaw (66) were among the five Indian batsmen who struck the fifties with Cheteshwar Pujara (54), Ajinkya Rahane (56), and Hanuma Vihari (53) being the others.
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The lower-order – constituting Rishabh Pant, R Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, and Umesh Yadav – couldn’t bag many runs as India lost last 5 wickets for a matter of just 11 runs, hence being bundled out for 358. Opening the batting for CA XI, D’Arcy Short and Max Bryant remained unbeaten as stumps were called on Day 2. The hosts’ aggregated 24 runs in 4 overs without losing any wicket.
CA XI didn’t lose any wicket in the limited time they got on Day 2, but the Indian bowlers are expected to pose a greater threat to CA XI batsmen on the third day. Murali Vijay, who remained the only recognized batsman to have not played on the second day, can be expected to come out to open alongside Shaw in the second innings.
