Virat Kohli flies back to Mumbai due to ‘personal emergency’ before match. Indian batter Virat Kohli returned to Mumbai from Guwahati due to a “personal emergency” as the Men in Blue arrived in Trivandrum for their second exhibition match against the Netherlands.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), according to NDTV, hasn’t said whether Kohli will miss the exhibition game.
According to the report, the star batter will be back in time to support his teammates when India takes on The Netherlands on October 2.
“A source from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that he went to Mumbai for personal reasons. Virat will rejoin the team soon,” Cricbuzz quoted a source as saying.
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The news comes as social media is buzzing with rumours of his wife, Indian actress Anushka Sharma, becoming pregnant.
The power couple is reportedly expecting their second child and is waiting for the right time to make an official announcement, according to several entertainment outlets in India.
As Virat Kohli flies back to Mumbai due to ‘personal emergency’ before match, according to the Khaleej Times, it is assumed that the actress has purposefully kept a low profile and limited her public appearances to avoid public scrutiny and stop further rumours.
These rumours have been going around for a while, but they really took off after Anushka recently shared a festival-related Instagram post in which she was seen wearing a saree in every picture.
After getting married in 2017, Anushka and Kohli welcomed their first child, Vamika, in January 2021.
The first warm-up game between India and England had to be postponed because of the unfavourable weather in Guwahati. On Tuesday, when they take on the Netherlands, they will have one more chance to evaluate their starting lineup. India and Australia will square off in Chennai on October 8 in the tournament’s opening game.
Hardik Pandya, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishan Kishan, and Suryakumar Yadav make up India’s World Cup squad.
