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and India will look to proceed their dominating run over Lanka beneath the brand new captain Rohit Sharma. It is the primary captaincy task for Rohit as Virat Kohli relinquished the management earlier this 12 months after the South Africa sequence. Meanwhile, Kohli may even play his one hundredth Test, it’s Sri Lanka’s three hundredth of the longest format.
Till the beginning of this week, the stands on the IS Bindra PCA Stadium in Mohali had been to be silent for the primary Test between India and Sri Lanka ranging from Friday. But with now 50% crowd being allowed into the stadium, the sounds of cheers and claps from the followers can be heard when Virat Kohli takes the sphere for his one hundredth Test, turning into the twelfth Indian and 71st cricketer to attain the landmark.
Friday’s Test in opposition to Sri Lanka additionally marks Kohali’s first look in Tests since leaving the captaincy after India misplaced 2-1 to South Africa in January. Though his returns with the bat (no century since November 2019) have invited concern and criticism in equal measure, there isn’t a questioning that Kohli has been the spine for India’s batting for a really very long time.
Though Kohli had a low-key Test debut in June 2011 in opposition to the West Indies within the backdrop of his beautiful white-ball sport, his need to succeed and try exhausting for excellence within the longest format of the sport has resulted in him amassing 7962 runs in 99 matches at a mean of fifty.39, together with seven double centuries. In his landmark Test, Kohli can be coming into a brand new section of his profession: because the senior-most batter within the aspect with no calls for of captaincy and probability to scale a lot higher peaks with a renewed mindset.
Kohli’s landmark one hundredth Test additionally marks the beginning of Rohit Sharma’s stint because the Test captain of India. The hosts haven’t been on the dropping aspect in dwelling Tests because the 2-1 defeat to England in 2012 and can be hoping to increase their streak in opposition to a visiting Sri Lanka aspect. Apart from preserving the successful juggernaut rolling in opposition to Sri Lanka, India could have one eye on gaining some essential World Test Championship (WTC) factors, In the race to the ultimate. India are in fifth place whereas Sri Lanka are the early topper of the desk.
India Squad: Rohit Sharma(c), Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Shubman Gill, Umesh Yadav, Jayant Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Priyank Panchal, Srikar Bharat, Saurabh Kumar
Sri Lanka Squad: Dimuth Karunaratne(c), Lahiru Thirimanne, Pathum Nissanka, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Niroshan Dickwella(w), Lahiru Kumara, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Embuldeniya, Praveen Jayawickrama, Dinesh Chandimal, Vishwa Fernando, Chamika Karunaratne, Jeffrey Vandersay, Dushmantha Chameera
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