Week in, week out Indian players stayed in the bio bubble, whether it be the tour of Australia or 2 months-long England’s tour of India. It will be fair to say that players might have reached their highest level of frustration. The isolation might have taken a huge toll on the players. 

Nevertheless, if there’s something optimistic to emerge from such strict quarantine guidelines then it’s the forging of a ‘renewed friendship’ between two proverbial alpha males within the Indian dressing room – Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

What helped Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma become friends again?

Earlier, the Indian skipper said that discussing personal lives in the professional sector are disrespectful and that too just because of a few negative results. He also mentioned how everything is okay among the teammates and it is easily readable from his behavior if he doesn’t happen to like a person.

TOI understands that Kohli and Sharma, two of Team India’s senior-most members – aided by the team management and coach Ravi – found the time and space needed to sit across the table and “talk it out” during the series against England. The two batsmen, who over the last couple of years, were reportedly not getting along, decided to begin on a fresher note.

“Other than profitable two huge sequences, that is been the most important acquire contained in the Crew India dressing room. Quite a lot of private bonding has occurred in the latest weeks and so they’re extra in sync now than ever as regards their cricket, the crew, their duties, and the upcoming challenges. They perceive now, greater than ever, that the crew will solely profit if they discover themselves on the identical web page. This has been the most important takeaway within the final 4 months,” prime sources mentioned.

Those tracking developments point out how the two leading cricketers have also made it a point to subtly let that outside of the Team India camp know that “gossip theories need to end”.

“They’ve spent a lot of time talking to each other in public, like during the post-match presentation at the end of the T20 series. They’ve been appearing in photographs together a lot more than in the past. During the One-day series, Virat made it a point to keep his discussions on with Rohit constantly during the game. These things would happen earlier too, but this one time they’ve decided to make it more visible for outsiders to know that all this chatter now needs to stop,” sources added.

Recently we’ve seen Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli opening for Team India in T20I. They had a good partnership together and will be likely opening in the T20 World cup.