India will be traveling to Dubai for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 on February 15 to start their preparation for the tournament. After winning the three-match ODI series against England, it seems that the Men in Blue are all ready for the big tournament ahead of them. They won the final match of the series at the Narendra Modi Stadium by 142 runs. The thing that was a cause of reason for the team was senior batter Virat Kohli's form, but this was all solved after he smashed a half-century in the final ODI in Ahmedabad.
Kohli missed the first game of the series due to a swollen knee but made a comeback in the second ODI and went back to the pavilion after scoring just five runs. In the third ODI, he bounced back to his natural game, hitting his 73rd ODI fifty, scoring 52 runs, and helping India to set a target of 357 runs for England.
Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen didn't count Kohli back in form after the third ODI as he got trapped against the plan of Adil Rashid for the second time in the series. It seems that he was not happy with the way Kohli got dismissed and should have gone for the big score.
"He shouldn't be getting out to that ball. He's a much better player than that. And he will be kicking himself. That ball is bowled slowly through the air. So he shouldn't have been over-committed on the front foot. He should have played back to it. He should have punched it into the offside, and he would still have been batting, and he probably would have gone on to get a big score."
Further, he said,
"You can see where it hits from a side-on angle. That hits the top of the bat. That hits the splice of the bat, which means that he got his lengths wrong. That's nowhere near the middle of his bat. Have a look at that."
Pietersen asked Kohli to watch Joe Root because he will never be over-committed on the front foot like that.
"That's where you can see where the ball has made contact with the bat. Look how far forward his bat is in front of his pad. This means he's got the length wrong, and he's too good a player to get out like that. He shouldn't be doing it. He shouldn't be giving Adil Rashid that chance to get his wicket. You watch Joe Root. He will never be overcommitted on the front foot like that. No way."