IND vs SA / Who will get the chance in place of Kohli? Team India has these 3 options

IND vs SA: After about 6 months, the Indian cricket team is returning to Test cricket again. The series will start from Tuesday 26th December with the first Test match between Team India and South Africa in Centurion. There are still 3-4 days left for the Test match to start but big news has come before that. Team India's former captain and star batsman Virat Kohli suddenly returned to India from South Africa. Now the question is that if he is not able to return in this test, then what are the options to take his place in Team India?

Senior players like Virat, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah had reached South Africa a few days ago for the Test series. The team's base was in Pretoria, where it had to play a three-day intra-squad match. Some reports had claimed that Kohli batted in this match, but on Friday 22 December, Cricbuzz report revealed that Kohli did not take part in this match, because he returned to Mumbai 3 days ago due to family emergency. Had come.

What are the options in the squad?

However, it has also been told in this report that Virat Kohli will join the team even before the Centurion Test match and will be available for this match. Still, if the situation changes then which batsman will Team India give a chance in the playing eleven? The question is also what are the options in Team India's squad? This question is also in front of Team India because batsman Ruturad Gaikwad, who was a part of the Test squad, is out of the series due to a finger injury.

In such a situation, only Rohit, Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul and Shrikar Bharat are left in the Indian squad. It is certain that Team India will field with 3 main pacers and 3 all-rounders (Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur). According to this, Team India has options to fill the place of remaining 6 batsmen but Team India has little confidence in Bharat's batting and wicketkeeping. In such a situation, Team India will definitely be searching for a batsman.

3 contenders for Kohli's place

For this, the team management has the option of other batsmen who have come with India-A, while some batsmen of the ODI team can also stake claim in this. Three names are at the forefront in this – Tilak Verma, Sarfaraz Khan and Abhimanyu Easwaran. Tilak Verma showed in the third match of the ODI series against South Africa that he can stay at the crease and bat for a long time in difficult conditions. They also give a bowling option.

Whereas Sarfaraz Khan has been knocking on the doors of Team India for a long time. Sarfaraz has scored a lot of runs in domestic first class tournaments in the last 2-3 seasons and hence his claim is strong. Sarfaraz also played an inning of 68 runs for India A against South Africa A. He was also seen batting in the intra-squad match, where he played a strong innings. Apart from these, the luck of Bengal opener Abhimanyu Easwaran can also shine, who has been in the squad for different Test series for the last 2 years but could not debut.