India captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday hinted that he might skip the three-day pink-ball warm-up game ahead of the eagerly-awaited Test series against Australia after an intense limited-overs leg of the tour which ended on Tuesday.
The tour game against Australia A is due to begin in three days time and will be India’s final tune-up before the opening day-night Test in Adelaide from December 17.
Kohli will lead the team in the opener of the four-match series, after which he will go back to India for the birth of his first child.
“I will wake up tomorrow and see if I can play the tour match. Playing it on and off is not my thing and I like to play the full game. I will talk to our physio and then decide on my participation,” Kohli said after the third T20I.
Having won the series, Kohli was looking forward to the Tests and said the current team is stronger than the one that made history by winning its first Test series Down Under two years ago.
“We need to take the same competitive attitude into the Tests, and having played here a few times, we can score runs as well.
“Once it’s time to capitalise and score, we need to do that session by session. I’m sure the current side is stronger than last time,” Kohli said.
