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India last played a Test match without Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane in 2011.
The Indian team is going to play a five-match Test series against England, starting from January 25. The first match of this Test series will be played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad from 25th January.
However, before this important Test series, the Indian team has suffered a big setback. Experienced batsman Virat Kohli is unavailable for the first two Test matches. He will not be able to participate in the first two test matches due to personal reasons. Let us tell you, Virat Kohli is one of the important players of the Indian team. Recently, the Indian team played a two-match test series against South Africa in which Virat Kohli’s performance was also tremendous.
Now that Virat Kohli will not play for the Indian team in the first two Test matches, the experience of the host’s middle order seems to be very less. The main reason behind this is that the Indian team management has not included Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane in this team. These two senior players played a total of 188 test matches.
India played its last Test match without Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane in 2011.
Let us tell you, India played the last Test match without Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane in 2011. India played a three-match Test series against West Indies at home in 2011. Kohli, Pujara and Rahane did not participate in the first two matches of this Test series. India won the first test match played in Delhi by 5 wickets.
After this, the second test between the two teams was played at Eden Garden, Kolkata. In this match, Indian team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first. For the Indian team, opener Gautam Gambhir scored 65 runs while Virender Sehwag scored 66 runs. After this, batting at number three, Rahul Dravid scored 119 runs while Sachin Tendulkar played an inning of 38 runs. For the Indian team, VVS Laxman and Mahendra Singh Dhoni made an important partnership of 224 runs.
While on one hand VVS Laxman played an unbeaten inning of 176 runs, on the other hand Dhoni scored 144 runs. India declared its first innings at 663 runs for 7 wickets. In response, West Indies were all out for 153 runs in their first innings while they scored 463 runs in the second innings but the team lost the second test by an innings and 15 runs.
