Virat Kohli pens heartwarming word for Rahul Dravid: ‘Never imagined the journey would bring us back here’

Virat Kohli remembers the final time India performed a Test towards the West Indies in Roseau, Dominica. 12 years again. Only yet another participant a part of that lineup has at the moment traveled with the Indian squad for the upcoming collection aside from the previous India skipper. Head coach Rahul Dravid.

On Sunday, Kohli took to his Instagram to put up an image with the Dravid captioned, “The only two guys part of the last test we played at Dominica in 2011. Never imagined the journey would bring us back here in different capacities. Highly grateful.”

Back then, India managed to attract the third and ultimate Test of the collection to clinch it 1-0. While it was the debut Test collection for a younger Virat Kohli, who had already received an U19 and an ODI World Cup, it marked the final time Dravid performed a Test match within the Caribbean.

India’s subsequent project, which can be their first following the World Test Championship Final defeat towards Australia, can be a two-Test, three-ODI and a five-T20I tour.

For the Windies, the collection comes within the rapid aftermath of an early ICC World Cup qualifiers exit that meant a primary miss out on the boys’s ODI World Cup because the 1975 version.

West Indies’ efficiency mentor and former skipper Brian Lara nonetheless believes that his crew stands probability to problem the guests.

“We have two very important Test matches which start the two-year cycle (World Test Championships) for us, it is against India. At home and away from home, they are one of the top teams in the world,” mentioned Lara forward of the primary Test beginning Wednesday, July 12.