The
India skipper will return home early but finally a semblance of normality is about to return for the
Australian summer
In a way, the India-Australia summer about to start has snuck up on us. The visiting players arrived from quarantine in Dubai to be whisked away to quarantine in Sydney. They have been training alone in a cordoned-off stadium that is already a long way from the bright lights out in Blacktown, a ground on a patch of bushland squashed between a freeway and a creek, with no company bar a couple of obsessive journalists crawling around in the bushes near the perimeter fence to report on movements inside the wire.
But this Friday, that team dressed in retro dark blue will emerge from behind the fences and the masks to appear on the
Sydney Cricket Ground, led out by captain Virat Kohli, even playing in front of a live crowd after all the canned foley of recent months in empty monoliths.