New Delhi: The Virat Kohli-led Indian team checked into their Cape Town hotel on Thursday night, with the newly-wed Indian captain's wife - Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma - by his side.
The couple, along with the Indian team members, could be seen entering the hotel in a video posted by the BCCI.
After a long flight #TeamIndia make their way to the team hotel here in Cape Town, South Africa pic.twitter.com/lFr3ktBvlX
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 28, 2017
Anushka, who got married to Virat in Italy on December 11, is expected to fly back after welcoming the New Year with her husband in the Rainbow Nation.
India will play three Tests, six ODIs and three T20Is on a testing tour that will last almost two months (56 days). The tour begins with a training camp, followed by the first Test beginning January 5 in Cape Town.
Before the team's departure, Kohli said the team has nothing to prove to anyone and the players are committed to give their 100 per cent wherever they play.
"We have got rid of all the mental pressures of touring abroad and wanting to prove to people. We are not wanting to prove anything to anyone and our duty is to go out there, give our 100 per cent effort for the country and get the result that we want to," Kohli had said at the team's pre-departure press conference.
"We need to be realistic with what we are doing and that the only way we will be staying in the present and execute the things we want to. We are going there to just play cricket and it does not matter whether we are in South Africa, Australia, England or India," the skipper added.
India have yet to win a Test series in South Africa.
