It won't be that difficult to make new norms part of our lives, proclaims Virat Kohli

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Virat Kohli believes that like many things with life, cricketers will have to adapt to the changes regulated by the International Cricket Council as a precaution to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Indian skipper added that it will be really strange to curb the instinct once the training resumes.

After India’s encounter against South Africa was abandoned due to heavy rain in Dharamsala in the second week of March, the New Zealand Test series eventually became the last cricketing action played by the Indian team before the union government announced a nation-wide lockdown in late March. 

Although the Ministry of Home Affairs have relaxed the norms, when sporting activity can actually resume is a matter of great concern. To go with that the ICC have imposed various guidelines for social distancing and it is something that made Virat Kohli feel strange about the uncertain future of the sport.

"Game changing a lot? Man I do not know what is going to happen, it is so strange thinking even of practice sessions like instinctively you want to clap/hi-five, but you cannot do that, you will meet people after a long time, and you would have to fold hands and stay away," Kohli told Ashwin during the interaction, reported PTI.

"I know it sounds strange, it might be a permanent feature until there is some sort of cure or vaccine that comes out, we will need to make that a part of our routine. We all find it strange, with all things in life, it won't be that difficult to make a part of our lives," he added.

While India’s itinerary is yet to be declared, the latest resumption of international cricket might begin with a Windies tour of England in July in a bio-secure environment.

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