Virat Kohli feels India has quality to win series; concedes they made mistakes in England

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“We don’t want to be a team that wins one odd test match here and there,” Kohli told reporters on Tuesday. “We have figured out our mistakes in England which, I have mentioned before, were very radical.

“The quality of cricket was very high but our mistakes were as radical and that’s why we lost the games. We won the game in which we committed fewer mistakes. We were at par with the other team throughout.

“I think we have the ability to keep competing with the other team and in test cricket whichever team makes fewer mistakes wins the game. That’s the general rule.”

Kohli felt India, who lost 2-0 in their previous four-match series in Australia in 2014-15, would still need to be at their best to succeed.

“We played good cricket last time but we were not able to win games, so this time around we obviously want to change that,” he said.

“We definitely believe we have the quality to do so but it will boil down to how we think in each moment in every test match that we play or every game that we play on this tour.

“As a whole, throughout the tour we want to do the little things right and have our focus really precise so that we can win more situations than the opposition.”

 

[Global.Baba]

Players will be niggled and mistakes will still be made. Axis of evil will not learn anything, marky my words. Sometimes don’t even think that Kohli and Shastri’s brains and mouth in these press conferences are in synch 

[rtmohanlal]

Now that you are going to play only 1 practice match in AUS, don't come up with further excuses if you bottle  this oppertunity too

[Khota]

The biggest mistake is to persist with Kohli as a captain in all the formats.

[Nikola]

So quality wasn't there on England tour? and what mistakes did you learn? only change i see is rohit coming back to test side and that increase quality of test team?  

[putrevus]

India winning a four or five test series in SENA countries is going to be very very difficult. They don't have batsmen who are capable of being consistent for whole series and their bowlers cannot limit damages.

 

We have guy like Rahane who wants to bask in glory of his stupid 48 in SA that too after stinking for whole series in England. This guy is the vice captain of the team.What can you expect from this team. 

[raki05]

4 hours ago, Switchblade said:

 

ab pachtaye howat ka jab chiriya chud gayi...

[Vilander]

5 hours ago, Switchblade said:

 

biggest mistake is not having 10 more days of prep and few practice games.

 

I see India has rectified that very well.... not. 

 

So its down to Kohli Bumrah brilliance.

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Just now, Vilander said:

biggest mistake is not having 10 more days of prep and few practice games.

 

I see India has rectified that very well.... not. 

 

So its down to Kohli Bumrah brilliance.

Difficult to win the series with only 2 players.

[Vilander]

3 minutes ago, Switchblade said:

Difficult to win the series with only 2 players.

some others will step up for sure. Depends on how batsmen go against their bowlers. If they are able to put okish scores our bowlers will win the games and the series. If batsmen score single digits then its an other white wash in the offing. 

 

Need 300 plus score from batsmen and the series is Indias. 

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1 minute ago, Vilander said:

some others will step up for sure. Depends on how batsmen go against their bowlers. If they are able to put okish scores our bowlers will win the games and the series. If batsmen score single digits then its an other white wash in the offing. 

 

Need 300 plus score from batsmen and the series is Indias. 

Also important not to let the momentum slip away after they are 7 or 8 down for 120 odd

[Vilander]

1 hour ago, Switchblade said:

Also important not to let the momentum slip away after they are 7 or 8 down for 120 odd

sam curran..dont think Aus have anyone like that. top order masquerading as a no 8 ( wtf) 

[coffee_rules]

*cough* Pandya *cough* 

[Tibarn]

IMO, If we win some more tosses that series, people would have a different view of the team and would see their quality more along the lines of what it actually is. 

[Lannister]

Yeah right. Like how you rectified your mistakes from SA tour in England. 

[nevada]

13 hours ago, putrevus said:

India winning a four or five test series in SENA countries is going to be very very difficult. They don't have batsmen who are capable of being consistent for whole series and their bowlers cannot limit damages.

 

We have guy like Rahane who wants to bask in glory of his stupid 48 in SA that too after stinking for whole series in England. This guy is the vice captain of the team.What can you expect from this team. 

Yes, the entire batting lineup barring Kohli was spineless. I can't understand how they can collectively stink match match! The bowlers set up the game beautifully time and again but the batters didn't  grab the chance. Even Kohli went AWOL in two chases which ended up costing us the series. In theory, this batting line up should do better in Australia due to absence of English like swing. Let's see what happens, this series is last chance saloon for team India. No amount of hastily arranged, meaningless bilateral series against the likes of SL, WI etc can repair the damage to this team's credibility if we end up losing this upcoming series.

[nevada]

11 hours ago, Vilander said:

sam curran..dont think Aus have anyone like that. top order masquerading as a no 8 ( wtf) 

Mitchell Starc can bat. Don't be shocked if our bowlers make a crisis specialist batsman out of him. 

[Suhaan]

Kohli is actually talking about series of goodies,

They are best at shopping

Won those across continents

[Vilander]

15 hours ago, Tibarn said:

IMO, If we win some more tosses that series, people would have a different view of the team and would see their quality more along the lines of what it actually is. 

An other pain point that root always wins tosses 7 or 8 in a row now..needs to be probed.