Debasis Sen, Visakhapatnam: On a warm sunny afternoon at the VDCA stadium in Vizag, two most popular faces of Indian cricket entered the stadium in a white Innova. Both Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni knows best that they will have a huge responsibility on their experienced shoulders of carrying forward the expectation of a billion Indians during the World Cup in England in less than 100 days time.
Despite being off day as the Indian cricketers were supposed to assemble in the port city ahead of the first T2OI against Australia, Kohli and Dhoni chose to have some knocking in the nets.
Kohli, who was rested for the final two ODIs and the entire T20I series against New Zealand, returned to action after a short break. MS Dhoni, who has had a sensational start to 2019 after a poor 2018 was also seen at practice. Medium pacer Umesh Yadav also accompanied the two of them.
While MS Dhoni arrived in the port city a day before on Thursday, Kohli landed in Vizag on Friday afternoon with `Rohit Sharma, Krunal Pandya and Coach Ravi Shastri from Mumbai.
India and Australia will face-off in two T20Is and five ODIs and the matches will be crucial to their World Cup preparation.