JOHANNESBURG: India Captain Virat Kohli on Monday ruled out the second test against South Africa here before starting the game because of the upper back spasm, leaving KL Rahul to lead a very important team.
Rahul said on the throw that Kohli is expected to be available for the third and final test from January 11.
“Unfortunately, Virat has a spasm for upper back.
Fisio is working on it and hopefully he will recover in time for the next test,” Rahul said in a throw when asked about Kohli’s absence from the match.
Hanuma Vihari All-rounder has come in playing XI to replace Kohli.
Jasprit Bumrah has been crowned the captain’s deputy for the second test.
Shreyas Iyer was ruled out from the selection due to stomach bugs.
Kohli, who has struggled against a prolonged lean patch with Willow, thus it won’t be able to finish the 100 landmark test in the serial-finale at Cape Town.
The 33-year-old will play in the ODI series against Proteas starting January 19.
Rahul will captain India in the rubber as the normal white ball captain Rohit Sharma was injured.
BCCI also issued a statement where he told him that Jasprit Bumrah would be the representative of Rahul during the match here.
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It should be noted that the head coach Rahul Dravid, while overcoming a pre-match press conference on Sunday, did not provide an indication of the possibility of injury concerns over Kohli, which was locked in the war-words with BCCI on the road.
The captain’s appearance ended.
Dravid, one of the great India throughout the time, has provided support to the superstar dough for “phenomenal” where he has led the team despite “all the noise around it”.
Kohli kicked the storm before the ongoing tour by stating that he had never been asked to reconsider the T20 captain as confirmed by President BCCI Sourly.
His statement met with the rebuttal of the Chief Chetan Sharma voter who said that Kohli was asked to hold his decision at least until the end of the T20 World Cup.
After releasing the T20 leadership, Kohli Remo as Captain Odi in December.
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Since the dramatic press conference where it contradicts Ganguly, Kohli does not have media interaction and dravid on Sunday it will make it available for questions on the 10th test night.
With that now effectively moving to next month, it still has to be seen whether Kohli will appear for media conferences before the Cape Town test, on the following Monday.
Kohli enjoyed a perfect record in Johannesburg where he had scored a century and several centuries in two test matches.
Overall, he has scored 310 runs in iconic wanderers and stands only seven runs from having another batting record – most of the test scored in the venue.
The visitors won the opening series last week and are now eyeing the first test series of victories in South Africa.