As the Perth Test is coming closer, the heartbeats of Indian cricket fans are increasing. This series is going to prove to be very difficult for Team India, which reached Australia straight after the 0-3 defeat in the home Test series against New Zealand. In such a situation, the fans fear that Team India might face a bad situation here too. On the other hand, Indian players have definitely been working hard in Perth for the last several days and are busy preparing themselves. All the players are standing with complete seriousness but in between, light moments are also seen and something like this happened during the team's practice when Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel could not stop laughing and the reason for this. Became Sarfaraz Khan.
Team India practiced a lot at the old Walla Stadium in Perth last week and now from Tuesday 19th November, it came to practice for the first time at Optus Stadium. The first test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is to start on this ground from 22nd November. On the first day of practice, Indian players practiced extensively from fielding to batting and bowling. However, rain definitely interfered, due to which the practice had to be abandoned midway.
Still, a lot was seen during this period, one of which was the funny moment between Sarfaraz Khan, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel. A video of this is going viral on social media, in which these four players were engaged in fielding practice behind the wicket. It is seen in the video that Pant was keeping, while Sarfaraz was in first slip, Virat in second and Jurel in third slip. Meanwhile, a catch came towards Sarfaraz, which was right near his mouth. Sarfaraz took this catch in a very strange manner and saved the ball from hitting his face.
What did Sarfaraz do?
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What happened next, seeing Sarfaraz's style of catching, the other three players started laughing. Kohli first tried to suppress his laughter and hid his face with both his hands, while Jurel was also seen doing the same. But Pant, famous for his jovial style, did not restrain himself in any way and fell down on the field laughing. Pant was laughing while lying on the field and then seeing him the other two also started laughing, while Sarfaraz too could not stop laughing for some time.
Jokes apart, Team India will be eyeing a strong start to the series. In this match, the team will play without its star captain Rohit Sharma and young batsman Shubman Gill, while veteran fast bowler Mohammed Shami has still not returned to the team. In such a situation, there will be more responsibility on senior players like Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Jasprit Bumrah, while youngsters like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel will also have to show their mettle.
