Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma returned to international cricket after a gap of seven months in the first ODI against Australia in Perth but they couldn’t quite hit the ground runnung. Rohit, playing for the first time since Shubman Gill replaced him as India’s ODI captain, fell after scoring eight runs while Kohli then fell for an eight-ball duck. Batting Sunil Gavaskar has said that he is not too surprised by the veteran pair failing to fire considering this is their first game of competitive cricket in over four months overall.

After their last international game, 38-year-old Rohit and 36-year-old Kohli played for their respective teams in the IPL which ended in June. “They were playing on probably the bounciest pitch in Australia,” said Gavaskar on India Today. “It wasn’t going to be

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