The Indian ODI team left for Australia on Wednesday for the upcoming tour. The BCCI shared photos of the players at the airport and on the bus on social media. In this photo, Shubman Gill met Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma for the first time since being appointed captain of the Indian ODI team.

Gill hugged Rohit

Gill hugged former captain Rohit Sharma at the hotel, while he met Virat Kohli inside the bus. Fans loved Gill’s embrace with the star cricketers. The first batch of the Indian team, including star batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, left for Australia on Wednesday, where they are scheduled to play a three-match ODI series starting October 19. A video shared by the BCCI shows the Indian players boarding the team bus. Players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli arrived a few days ago.

The group arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the morning, where some fans queued up outside the entrance to catch a glimpse of them. Head coach Gautam Gambhir and some other members of the coaching staff will leave in the evening. The first ODI between India and Australia will be played in Perth on October 19th. The next two matches will be played in Adelaide and Sydney.

This will be followed by a five-match T20 International series, with the format’s specialists departing on October 22nd. The T20 series will begin on October 29th. All eyes will be on Rohit and Kohli’s performance in the ODI series. There is considerable speculation about their futures. Both players have already retired from Test and T20 Internationals. Rohit and Kohli represented India in the Champions Trophy in February, where India emerged victorious.

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