The training programs will surely get more intense as India gears up for the day-and-night second Test in Adelaide from December 6, 2024.
for the pink ball Test in Adelaide from December 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI
In cricket, Indian players are the rock stars. A routine pre-game training session at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday (December 3, 2024), acquired a festival air as nearly 3000 fans thronged the venue, lending their full-throated acoustics as an accompaniment to the thwack of the pink ball thudding into an eager bat. As Sania Mirza once said about Indian fandom, truly ‘we are so many of us!’
Camera-phones got busy, photos taken, calls made, social media was spammed and cries of ‘Kohli’ and ‘Rohit’ rent the air. Seemingly immune to this external noise, the cricketers got down to the business of sweating it out while the venue’s guards were perplexed at all this attention. There was a scramble for space around the nets before a tiny area was earmarked for the media.
