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Kohli on the need to bat aggressively: "Let down by our batting. There are no excuses there. The need of the hour in the second innings was to take calculated risk when you are chasing a small total in the fourth innings. Our intent was lacking." Kohli cited the example of the Sri Lankan second innings when five down and trailing by more than 100, saying their response was, "A classic case of people going out there and being fearless and our display was a classic case of people going out there and being tentative." The difference between the batting in the two innings, he said, had nothing to do with external conditions but just mindset. "Nothing changed in the wicket, the changes that happened [were] in our mindset. Today we were a bit nervous in our approach and that is the only other difference that happened in our approach between the second day and the fourth day." "You need people to go out there and play fearless cricket… Today everyone was tentative. You will have a couple of good catches taken, couple of good balls bowled but as long as the intent is there, you are always in the game. But if you are playing in a defensive way as a batting unit throughout the game, then you are always putting yourself under pressure." http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-india-2015/content/story/909905.html

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