WATCH - Crowd chants 'Kohli Kohli' as Virat enters the ground ahead of warm-up match against Bangladesh

India star batter Virat Kohli has reached the newly constructed Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York along with the Indian cricket team ahead of the T20 World Cup 2024 warm-up clash against Bangladesh. Indian fans in the United States started cheering for the former India captain during his arrival at the venue. 

However, Kohli will not feature in the warm-up match, and apart from him the whole team will feature against Bangladesh.

Virat Kohli's video of entering Nassau County International Cricket Stadium

While writing this copy, India captain Rohit Sharma has won the toss and opted to bat. Indian captain confirmed that Kohli has arrived yesterday and will miss out the clash. 

“We will bat. Not for any particular reason, conditions here look a bit challenging. Virat has just arrived yesterday, he's going to miss out, the rest are all available and we'll see how to use them. We arrived quite early, so the body clock has adjusted, we just have to see how well we can adjust to these conditions” said Rohit at Toss.

 

On the other hand, Bangladesh skipper Najmul Shanto said that the team will play with 13 players. Taskin Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman have been rested. 

 

“We would have bowled, we'll have to adjust the conditions and I want to know how the bowlers do. The boys have enjoyed themselves so far here, we are going to play with 13 players - Taskin and Mustafizur have been rested” Shanto at toss. 

 

BAN vs IND T20 World Cup 2024 Warm up match

 

Bangladesh (Batting 11, Fielding 11): Litton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Towhid Hridoy, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali(w), Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Tanzid Hasan, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Tanvir Islam

India (Batting 11, Fielding 11): Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

 

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