In November 2020 the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced: “The BCCI has granted paternity leave to the Indian captain.” Virat Kohli would fly home from the tour of Australia after the first Test in Adelaide for the birth of his first child.
Sunil Gavaskar compared this with the treatment of T. Natarajan, a bowler who had also just become a father and was kept in Australia as a net bowler. “And there is the captain going back after the first Test for the birth of his first child. That’s Indian cricket.”