Australian batsman Steve Smith said on Tuesday that Virat Kohli should give priority to his child birth instead Australian series as there was a lot of pressure on the Indian captain to stay in Australia for the entire Test series.
After losing 8 wickets in the first Test in Adelaide, the Indian team has lost 0-1 in the four-Test series. Kohli will leave for home on Tuesday, so that he can live with his actress wife Anushka Sharma for the birth of their first child. The second Test will be played in Melbourne from 26 December.
“Of course it is a big loss for India that he will not play in the rest of the series,” Smith said in an online press conference. We have to see how he played in the first innings. It was a level performance against a good bowling attack on a bowling friendly pitch. ‘