Virat Kohli and other team members of the Indian squad were seen going to the gym on Monday (May 31) before their World Test Championship (WTC) clash with New Zealand. The inaugural Test championship final against is set to take place in Southampton on June 18.
The BCCI took to Twitter to post a clip of the players preparing ahead of the WTC final. In the 38-second clip, the likes of team member Cheteshwar Pujara, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Kohli, and Mayank Agarwal can be seen working out in the gym.
Preps in full swing as #TeamIndia sweat it out in the gym ahead of the ICC World Test Championship Final 💪💪👊 – by @RajalArora
Full video 📽️👉 https://t.co/qDCuAC5Xvd pic.twitter.com/vggs9WuT0r
— BCCI (@BCCI) May 31, 2021
The full video time of 2-minutes and 10 seconds is uploaded on the BCCI Official website. Discussing their training, Soham Desai, the strength and conditioning coach of the Indian team said the following about getting ready for the WTCfinal.
“Both Nick (Webb) and I feel the players have benefitted from the gap to take rest. They have had a long year from last IPL to this. What we did was, first we asked them to rest, just take some time off, spend some time with family and just relax. Slowly, we started building them towards what they actually need to do.”
Following the WTC final against New Zealand, Team India will play a 5-match Test series facing England, which starts in the upcoming month.
Before the tour, Mayank Agarwal shed light on visiting fit during the pandemic in an exclusive interview on social media.
“To be honest, when there was a lockdown, initially, last year in March, we didn’t know when we were going to play again or when things would open up. The thought behind staying fit is that if you can create a routine for day-to-day life and have a strict fitness schedule, it’s only going to help you because you don’t just do fitness just for a particular tour,” Agarwal said.
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