Virat Anushka: Former Indian captain Virat Kohli along with his wife Anushka Sharma visited Rishikesh ahead of the Border- Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. The couple visited Swami Dayanand Giri Ashram there and offered prayers. Participated in religious rituals conducted there. Photos related to this are going viral now.
Virat Kohli visits spiritual places whenever he gets time. Recently the couple along with their daughter Vamika went to an ashram in Vrindavan. Kohli and Anushka spent an hour there at Karoli Ashram. After that, he meditated in the Kutiya (hut) and visited Baba’s Samadhi there. Blankets were donated at the ashram as per the custom there. Now he visited Rishikesh. Recently he participated in the ODI series against Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Currently preparing for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. This trophy is very important for India. If they win this series, they will have a chance to reach the final of the World Test Championship. Team India must beat Australia 2-0 or 3-1 to reach the WTC final in June. As part of this series, the first Test will begin on February 9 in Nagpur.
Indian team for the first two Tests against Australia
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shub Mann Gill, Chhateshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akshar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami , Mohammed Siraj, Jaidev Unadkat, Umesh Yadav.
Australian team
Usman Khawaja, Matt Renshaw, Steven Smith, David Warner, Traves Head , Magnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Aston Agar, Alex Carey, Peter Hands Coombe, Pat Comin, Scott Boland, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson.
Why is the world focusing on India-Australia test series?
The result of this test series is the World Test Championship 2021 which will be held this year. -23 makes way to the final. One or both of these two teams will play the final of the World Test Championship. In such situations, all eyes are on this series. According to the current equation, the World Test Championship final will be between India and Australia only. , overtaking Australia to become number-1 in the Test rankings. After the Ashes, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is the most crazed in Test cricket. Whenever these two teams face each other in test cricket, then the eyes of the cricketing world will be on this series.
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