In the press conference after losing the third Test to England, India skipper Virat Kohli was a disappointed man but at the same time, he w...
In the press conference after losing the third Test to England, India skipper Virat Kohli was a disappointed man but at the same time, he was confident that his team would bounce back in the fourth.
“We like to be in this situation where people start coming at us with doubts and really start questioning the ability of our team,” Kohli had said. “That is the situation we love best.”
Kohli’s words were a measure of how mentally resilient India have become in recent times but it also showed that this is a team that is often let down by the consistency of its batsmen in away Test matches.
The fourth Test between India and England begins at the Oval on Thursday and it is a hard one to predict... not so much because of the quality that we have in both teams but also because of the brittleness of the batting line-ups of both teams.
It is a failing that both skippers will be aware of when they take the field for the toss.
“Now is when the hard work starts,” England captain Root told reporters on Tuesday. “We’ve got to look to go even further, dig deeper and really start to go through the...
