Indian team geared up to take on South Africa in the second T20I of the series which is being played on October 2, 2022, in Guwahati. India leads the series 1-0 with a win in Trivandrum and has a chance to pocket the series here itself.
Indian team is without their ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah, who is in NCA after hurting his back and though Mohammed Siraj was called in as backup, he wasn’t named in the Indian XI for this match as captain Rohit Sharma revealed that they were going in with an unchanged XI.
South Africa captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and chose to field, making one change, bringing in Lungi Ngidi for Tabraiz Shamsi.
Ahead of the match’s start, BCCI shared a video on their official Twitter of former captain Virat Kohli giving the squad a morale-boosting pep talk, while KL Rahul, Deepak Chahar, and others listened intently.
Here is the video:
The glimpse of Virat Kohli giving the motivational speech, Indian team fans got nostalgic and recalled times when he did the same when he was the captain of the side.
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