For personal circumstances, virat Kohli, who was selected for the Indian Twenty20 International team for the Afghanistan series for the first time since November 2022, will miss Thursday’s first game. Virat Kohli will miss the initial T20I against AFG for personal reasons. Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who were unanticipated selections in India’s final Twenty20 International series prior to the 2024 T20 World Cup in the West Indies and the USA, have elected not to participate in the opening match on January 11 in Mohali.
Virat Kohli will miss the initial T20I against AFG for personal reasons
Rahul Dravid verified the news at the press conference held before the match. Reports indicate that Kohli, who had declared himself available for the Twenty20 International series, has not accompanied the team on the flight to Mohali, instead abstaining from the first Twenty20I for personal reasons. The final Twenty20 Internationals are anticipated to feature him on January 14 and 17.
Twenty20 International (T20I) appearance number one for Kohli was in the 2022 semifinal against England. So, he scored fifty off forty balls in India’s ten-wicket loss. Rohit and Kohli have avoided the format since then, focusing on one-day internationals with the 50-over World Cup in mind. Kohli has recently paused several times during a competition. Due to a personal emergency, he returned to Mumbai before India’s warm-up match against the Netherlands in Thiruvananthapuram.
