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Shubman Gill, who had missed the first Test at Perth due to dinner injury, seems to have recovered. At the nets at Manuka Oval, where India play a practice game from November 30th against PM XI, Gill batted at the nets.
He first faced the throwdowns where the pace was incredibly increasingly raised. After 30 minutes of it, he moved to the bowling nets to face Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, and Yash Dayal for a short while.
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Shubman Gill hits the nets ahead of the pink-ball tour game
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The forecast for the pink ball practice game isn’t good – it’s expected to rain through the weekend. Even on Friday, there was a light but steady drizzle , but the Indians trained through it.
Rohit returns
It also marked Rohit Sharma’s first return to the nets, with the rest of the Indian team. He had trained alone at Perth, during the Test match.
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In Manuka Oval, he was the first to hit the nets and was soon joined Jaiswal and Virat Kohli. Some of the team were in the main ground, warming up, running, and playing touch football, standing in a circle and just kicking it gently in the air without trying to not let it fall on the ground.
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And whenever someone missed, he was greeted with howls of laughter and for a little while it was Sarfaraz Khan who was the guilty party. He would vehemently protest everytime saying the ball was at an unretrievable angle or too far from him.
Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj and Harshit Rana didn’t bowl at the nets.
When Rana walked across to the nets, from the main ground, he was stopped Bumrah. “Geela hai rey (it’s wet) and Rana replied, ‘ yes yes just wanted to see what’s happening there.”
What was happening there was the first signs of a possible return to the second Test Gill.
