Ashwin became translator for Akashdeep, Virat is eager to play a big innings-Rohit

It feels like the era of 2008-10 is back when both these young players were trying to establish themselves in Team India. And they were being seen as very talented players. Another regular player from that era, Gautam Gambhir is now the head coach of this team and you can often see him smiling unlike his serious image. Especially, when he is seen with his teammates. A similar scene was seen on the pitch just a day before the Test match when Gambhir and Rohit Sharma approached bowling coach Morne Morkel and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Later, when this writer asked Ashwin about that conversation on his Hindi YouTube channel, he jokingly evaded the question. But later he did say that for Morkel, he was playing the role of a translator for his young fast bowler Akashdeep. Ashwin also said that Morkel wanted to know from him how spinners manage to do so well on Indian pitches.

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There was a little surprise when Kohli, who practiced batting for about 40 minutes on Wednesday, reached the nets to bat on Thursday as well. Usually Kohli also takes rest during the optional nets session on the day just before the match. But, the challenge on the slow spin pitch of Kanpur can be different and Kohli must be working on a different strategy for it. By the way, on Wednesday, when Akshar Patel got him out by tricking him with his spin ball, he became happy like a child and celebrated, to which Kohli laughingly tried to tell him jokingly that there was nothing like that!

However, one thing that Kohli cannot ignore as a joke is that just before the Australia tour, he has to present his old glory to the world again. Kohli, who could not even score a half-century in both the innings of the Chennai Test, is well aware of how his contemporaries Joe Root and Kane Williamson are showing a different consistency in terms of Test centuries. After playing an innings of 136 runs against Bangladesh in Kolkata in November 2019, Kohli has played 30 Test matches in which he has scored only 2 centuries. Certainly, these figures do not match the personality of a great player like Kohli. It can be expected that Kohli will definitely get to see a Test century in Kanpur. During this time, Kohli's Test average (32.72) has also come down significantly from his career average. For Kohli, keeping an average above 50 used to be a mere formality till a few years ago. During his period of dominance, he was successful in taking his average close to 60.

However, Team India has such a batting order that despite the failure of not only Kohli but also captain Rohit Sharma, it did not face any problem in Chennai. The reason for this was not only the centuries of Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill but also the brilliant batting of Ashwin and Jadeja as all-rounders. In the first innings in Chennai, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal also started well and scored a half-century, but could not play a big innings. Perhaps that is why when he was batting with Rohit Sharma during net practice, the captain was constantly talking to him. Sometimes he was seen giving him advice, sometimes encouraging him and sometimes congratulating him on his good shots. Ever since Jaiswal started his Test career in the West Indies last year, the Indian captain has been trying to mentor him in a special way.

Even when Jaiswal's bat was wreaking havoc in the last home series against England, Rohit refrained from praising him publicly and he praised the young player only after the series ended in Dharamsala. Perhaps Rohit is aware of the challenge of the Australia tour after a month and he knows how important it is for an opener like Jaiswal to be in great form to achieve success there. Anyway, Team India does not need to worry much about changing its strategy to defeat Bangladesh once again. It is almost certain that instead of the third seamer, the third spinner in the form of Kuldeep Yadav will get a chance here. Team India has won 17 series since 2013, winning every Test series on home ground. And the historic ground of Kanpur is waiting to witness their 18th series.

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