The BCCI has decided to allow former India captain Virat Kohli and current wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant a break from the Indian team’s bio bubble for the third and final T20I match against West Indies in Kolkata.
Both batsmen have been allowed a 10-day vacation from the Indian team’s bio-bubble by the BCCI. Pant and Kohli will not participate in the three-match T20 series against Sri Lanka, which begins on February 24 in Lucknow, according to the source. Kohli wants to be well-prepared for his 100th Test match, which will take place in Mohali in the first week of March. Kohli has been with the Indian squad since December, when they played three Tests and as many ODIs in South Africa. The 33-year-old captained the squad in the Test series before standing down as captain following the last Test in Cape Town. Pant and Kohli both played in all three One-Day Internationals against the West Indies, and both produced key half-centuries in India’s 8-run victory in the second T20I of the series on Friday.
Kohli told reporters after his innings, “I decided to be optimistic when I went in.”
