A young Indian team is raring to perform in the upcoming limited-overs challenge against Sri Lanka under the captaincy of Shikhar Dhawan. The newbies of the Indian team are currently undergoing a two-week quarantine in Mumbai before boarding their flight to Colombo. Now, after having served a week in isolation, the players are now permitted to train together.
On Friday, the official Twitter handle of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted a video of the team’s training session. In the clip, the “newbies” of the team — Devdutt Padikkal, Nitish Rana, Krishnappa Gowtham, and Chetan Sakariya — spoke about the isolation and on getting their maiden call-up for the national side.
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Captioning the video on Twitter, BCCI wrote: “Brand “New Video” Alert. New faces, New beliefs, New energy, #TeamIndia’s talented newbies speak about their run of emotions after getting out of quarantine, hitting the gym & gearing up for the Sri Lanka series.”
Brand "New Video" Alert ⚡️⚡️
New faces 😃
New beliefs 🤞
New energy 👌#TeamIndia's talented newbies speak about their run of emotions after getting out of quarantine, hitting the gym & gearing up for Sri Lanka series. 👍 👍 #SLvINDFull video 🎥 👇https://t.co/sHsi9LG6ii pic.twitter.com/1muHP2uaQ8
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 25, 2021
The footage starts with leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal entering the training area, wearing a mask, followed by middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer. The video also includes a short byte from some of the youngsters in the team. Padikkal, who earned his maiden call up on the back of some brilliant performances in domestic cricket, said that it “felt great to get out of quarantine and have a great training session”.
Devdutt Padikkal’s Karnataka teammate Krishnappa Gowtham said that it was nice to train with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) opener. The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) all-rounder also took a dig at Padikkal for not gaining any weight.
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Sakariya kept looking at himself in the mirror after wearing the India jersey. Chetan Sakariya said, “I have been looking myself in the mirror ever since I left my room.” He also expressed his delight at receiving the maiden call up for the country, saying that “happy to get my maiden India call-up.” On the other hand, Nitish Rana had said, “The first seven days were very difficult for me as I was waiting to meet my teammates.”
India will be locking horns with Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI and three-match T20I series, starting on July 13.
