Team India’s skipper Virat Kohli’s workload is expected to be a topic of discussion when the national selection committee headed by MSK Prasad will meet this weekend to pick the Indian squad for the Nidahas Trophy triangular T20I tournament in Sri Lanka, starting March 6. According to a top BCCI official, Kohli will decide himself whether he wants rest for the upcoming tri-series and his request will definitely be considered if the demand arises.
“If Virat wants rest, he will get it. In Virat’s case, it’s he who decides on whether he would like to opt out or not. But you never know he might just want to play the T20 series as this is the last tourney of the season. Once the tournament is over, he will get a fortnight off before the Indian Premier League,” a top BCCI official told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
India will face Sri Lanka in the opening match of the triangular Twenty20 tournament. Apart from India and Sri Lanka, Bangladesh will also be participating in the three-nation tournament. The tournament has been organised in order to mark the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence. The matches will be played under lights at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
In three Tests against South Africa, Kohli was the highest run-getter. He scored 286 runs at an average of 47.66, including one century and one half-century. The Indian skipper carried on the same show in the ODIs too, scoring 558 runs at a staggering average of 186. The run-machine slammed three centuries and one fifty in the six-match series.
