Special care' on the cards for newlyweds Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma in South Africa
Cape Town: Cricket South Africa (CSA) will provide great hospitality to Team India captain Virat Kohli and his wife Anushka Sharma during India’s tour to South Africa. This was revealed by the CSA's acting CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Thabang Moroe.
"We are very happy to host the couple. Just as we are the BCCI family. These two countries have shared special relations in the past both politically and on the sporting fields," said Moroe.
"Virat is a world beater, a very dominant batsman. Giving him world-class hospitality should help soften him up for our bowlers to be able to put him away very quickly in the matches to come," added Moroe.
After a long flight #TeamIndia make their way to the team hotel here in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/lFr3ktBvlX
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CSA acting CEO also said that the cricket board will treat newly-married Virat and Anushka with “special care”.
The Indian cricket team skipper and the Bollywood actress-producer tied the knot in Italy earlier this month in a hush-hush wedding and then held two receptions – one in New Delhi and another in Mumbai – which was attended by who’s who of Bollywood and Indian cricket fraternity.
Virat, accompanied by Anushka, and the Indian team left for South Africa a day after his wedding reception in Mumbai.
"I would like to believe that we are treating them (Kohli and Anushka) with the same special care that we give to all our visitors. As South Africans, we are very well known for our friendliness and hospitality and I'm pretty confident they would agree too," continued the acting CEO of CSA.
"To be honest I haven't received any special requests and if any came, they would've gone to my team who are more than capable of pulling a rabbit out of the hat."
"Anything that we can do to make the trip a special one for the newlyweds, we will try our best to make it happen," Moroe added further.
"The coming year (2018) will serve as a reminder and testimony to the ties our countries enjoy. We hope to play our part as cricket in making sure that the relations grow stronger than ever before," he concluded.
