Captain Virat Kohli led a vigorous coaching session because the Indian workforce on Sunday appeared to get used to the swinging pink ball and a swanky enviornment in Motera forward of the Day/Night time Take a look at in opposition to England beginning Wednesday.

The four-match sequence is presently tied at 1-1 with the guests successful the primary Take a look at in Chennai by 227 runs, and India coming again strongly with a 317-run triumph within the second sport on the identical venue.

Desperate to seal the destiny of the rubber with one other victory, the house workforce gamers did stretching workouts, fielding drills earlier than hitting the nets on the new Sardar Patel Stadium, the world’s largest cricket venue with a staggering capability of 1,10,000 spectators.

The massive weapons — skipper Kohli, his deputy Ajinkya Rahane, the flamboyant Rohit Sharma and the swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant — batted within the nets because the likes of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj ran in and examined themselves below the blazing solar.

Tempo spearhead Bumrah is bracing for a comeback after lacking the second match at Chepauk and the seasoned Ishant Sharma, who’s standing on the cusp of taking part in in his 100th Take a look at, was additionally seen in motion.

Whereas the spinners might have accounted for the majority of wickets within the first two Checks of the continued sequence, the Indian pacers took all 20 wickets to win their solely earlier day-night pink ball match on residence soil, in opposition to Bangladesh in Kolkata.

Openers Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal additionally had successful on the nets, with the Punjab batsman once more on the point of pair up with Rohit on the high of the order within the upcoming match.

The spinners — Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav — too rolled their arms over. The primary two are set to play whilst India ponder leaving out the chinaman bowler maintaining the swinging pink ball in thoughts.

The BCCI launched a small clip of the coaching session whereas the native physique — Gujarat Cricket Affiliation (GCA) — captured the moments because the gamers went although the drills.

As the 2 groups began their coaching in full swing, the gamers couldn’t cease raving concerning the stadium whose dressing rooms, amazingly sufficient, are related to the gymnasium.

President Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to observe the upcoming Take a look at match with Union House Minister Amit Shah after inaugurating the brand new stadium.

India’s globe-trotting cricketers have already expressed their awe on the new facility.