The Indian cricket team led by Rohit Sharma finally boarded the plane to Australia in the early hours of Thursday. The 14-member squad, along with the support staff, boarded the flight to Perth, where they will be sweating it out in the training camp for a week before they leave for Brisbane to take part in the two warm-up games, which are scheduled against Australia and New Zealand on October 17 and 19, respectively.
Meanwhile, wishes have been pouring in from all corners for the Indian cricket team as they move ahead for the marquee tournament. Even Yuzvendra Chahal’s wife, Dhanashree, also took to her social media and shared a heartfelt message for her husband on Instagram.
Dhanashree Verma, who is very active on social media, shared a post before the spinner left the country. Dhanashree shared a picture of herself with Yuzvendra Chahal in the Instagram post and expressed that it is an auspicious and proud day for her as her husband is all set to represent India in the upcoming world cup. wrote: “truly an auspicious & a proud day for me Hubby ready for the upcoming world cup to represent team INDIA JAI HIND #grateful Sending best wishes to the team Unbelievable overwhelming feeling.”
Check out her post:
The upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 will be Chahal’s maiden T20 World Cup. Chahal looked all set to play in the last year’s tournament but was badly ignored by the selectors. He played the series before and after the World Cup but was kept out of the ICC event. He was a part of India’s 2019 50-over World Cup squad. Besides Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin is the second spinner in the playing XI.
India’s playing XI: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh. Standby Players: Mohammad Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar
