Kohli to return home after 1st Test in Aus, Rohit included
New Delhi: Virat Kohli has been granted paternity leave and he will return to India after the first of the four Tests against Australia ends on December 21, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Monday.
The first Test starts on December 17 in Adelaide. Kohli’s wife Anushka Sharma is expecting their first child.
The BCCI statement, however, did not make it clear if Kohli would return for the rest of the Test series or not. The Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be played between December 17 and January 19.
The BCCI also announced that Rohit Sharma, whose injury recently became a big controversy, has been included in India’s Test squad for the Test series.
Leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who was the lone new face in the Indian T20 squad for the Australian tour, has been ruled out of the three-match T20I series owing to a shoulder injury, the BCCI said. The selectors have named left-arm pacer T Natarajan as a replacement.
These decisions were taken at a senior selection committee meeting on Sunday, the statement said. The committee picked the replacements after receiving injury reports and updates from the BCCI medical team.
-IANS
