The India captain has been the centre of attention since arriving in Adelaide, his favourite ground away from home
In 2018, Australian cricket was all about the image. The incriminating close-up of Cameron Bancroft’s sandpaper fingers at Newlands was a defining one. The opener’s ashen face in his press conference later that day became another, as did his captain Steve Smith’s anguished and tear-streaked expression on arriving home. All the turmoil since was based around those images, and their effect on the public image of the national men’s team.
But ahead of this new Test summer, the sound of the sport has taken over. Replacing the countless words that have filled so much space since March, Virat Kohli’s bat produced the noise of the game at its most evocative. A video of the Indian skipper dominating a training session in a manner that can only be described as sensual has been watched three million times on the Cricket Australia platforms. With the sound up, it was aural batting perfection.
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