Team India forced to practice indoors in Cape Town ahead of Test series against South Africa

Team India is touring South Africa to play their first overseas tour of the year.

India are touring South Africa for their first tour of the year. India had decided to go ahead without a practice match. Now they were forced to practice indoor at Newlands, Cape Town due to rains. This is the same venue where the first match is scheduled for. The official instagram account of Team India posted a photo with a caption ‘And we’ve moved indoors for training session #TeamIndia.’

And we’ve moved indoors for the training session #TeamIndia

A post shared by Team India (@indiancricketteam) on Dec 31, 2017 at 12:46am PST

Assistant coach Sanjay Bangar was inspecting the outfield while Shikhar Dhawan was seen putting in some yards.

Rain or no rain. Our Assistant coach @ImSanjayBangar has done his inspection for the day #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/V6z2oIv6Xl

— BCCI (@BCCI) December 31, 2017

Shikhar Dhawan is out and running. Patrick Faarhart in attendance and watching closely. #INDvSA #cricket pic.twitter.com/PJKYHYoLKF

— Anand Vasu (@anandvasu) December 31, 2017

India were supposed to play a warm-up game ahead of the first Test. However, skipper Virat Kohli insisted on just a couple of practice sessions: “You are never sure whether you are getting quality practice games or not. We would rather have practice sessions that are in our control. If you look at the wicket we are playing on right now, it’s not even going to be 15 per cent of what we will get in the game.

“There is no point wasting two days, guys going in, scoring quick fifties and coming out. We would rather have them do two sessions like today (Saturday), get into the Test match zone and test ourselves.”