Watch: Virat Kohli backs Anushka Sharma who scolds man for littering on streets

Mumbai: Virat Kohli is always vocal about his opinions and causes he supports on social media. On Saturday, the Team India captain took to Twitter and shared a video requesting his followers to keep the country clean.

In the footage, wife Anushka Sharma is seen telling a man in another car, not to litter on the roads. On spotting plastic thrown out of the car, the Bollywood actress says, “Why are you throwing plastic on the road? Please be careful, you can’t throw plastic like this on the road.”

The dashing right-hander, who recorded the whole incident on his phone, then took to social media and urged people to stand up against others who litter on the steers.

“Saw these people throwing garbage on the road and pulled them up rightfully. Travelling in a luxury car and brains gone for a toss. These people will keep our country clean? Yeah right! If you see something wrong happening like this, do the same and spread awareness. @AnushkaSharma,” he wrote.

India captain Virat Kohli is all set to take part in the two-match T20 Internationals in Ireland after comfortably clearing the YoYo test but there was bad news for middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu, who is set to be dropped after failing to attain required parameters here on Saturday.

“Almost all the players including skipper Virat Kohli have comfortably cleared the qualifying mark for the YoYo test. Ambati Rayudu is the only player in the UK-bound squad, who has failed to clear the fitness test. His score is well below the permissible 16.1 set for the India and India A team. Rayudu will be dropped from the squad,” a senior BCCI official told PTI on conditions of anonymity.

Rayudu had made a comeback in the ODI squad after more than one and half years in wilderness largely on the back of his IPL performance. It is learnt that Rayudu, who had a major role in Chennai Super Kings’ victorious IPL campaign, performed well below-par in the range of 14.

A lot of people were shocked as to how someone who has scored close to 600 runs in the IPL couldn’t maintain requisite fitness standard within three weeks of the tournament’s completion. The UK-bound limited overs specialist were today summoned at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) for the customary YoYo Test with Kohli, MS Dhoni, Bhuvneshwar Kumar taking the test in the first batch.

Kohli didn’t look in any discomfort while taking the advanced beep test as he matched Dhoni step for step along with Bhuvneshwar, Kedar Jadhav and Suresh Raina. Incidentally Raina, who was one of the first players last year to have flunked the YoYo test (along with Yuvraj Sigh), has comfortably cleared it this time round.

Earlier, the neck injury which he sustained during the IPL had thrown Kohli’s build-up for the UK tour in haywire as he had to pull out of a planned stint with Surrey in the County Championship this month. The YoYo test, which is the basic fitness parameter set by the Indian team management before any tour, was conducted at the National Cricket Academy ground, in the presence of Team India trainer Shankar Basu and the other support staff.

India will tour Ireland for T20 Internationals scheduled for June 27 and 29. The tour of England, comprising three T20 Internationals, three ODIs amd five Test matches, starts on July 3.