BCCI Secretary Ajay Shirke also said, “My hearty congratulations to the Indian Cricket team on the Test series win in the West Indies”.
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Put in to bat first, the Indian batsmen had struggled against the West Indies bowlers, who used the conditions efficiently to leave the tourists reeling at 126 for five in testing conditions on day one. “At the top, predominantly, we haven’t been consistent; not getting starts we’ve been looking for”.
“In an event like Olympics, firstly we need to look at how these athletes prepare”.
But Kohli insists that winning Test matches is far more important than his batting position and said he will continue to do what is best for his team. “Even in cricket, you can’t perform every game and you don’t win every series”, Kohli said. But this time around, they were more lethal, more accurate and more ruthless. We’ve got a number of young players.
“It is a situation where many of us coming to global cricket and are trying to learn on our job. The batsmen, if they get 20 or 30, should convert it into 50, 70 and 100 and beyond”, he added.
Ashwin, who scored a superb century in Antigua, then once again came to rescue, stitching a 213-run partnership with wicketkeeper-batsman Saha (104) for the sixth wicket to help India finish first innings at 353. West Indies were set a target of 346 runs in 87 overs. “I can’t put my finger on exactly how I’m going to fix it”. “So sitting here is hard to answer but all I can say is that the responsibility is on the batsmen at the present time”.
India would be hoping to declare their innings in the first session itself. Though it was a very tough decision to choose the man of the match as Saha, Bhuwaneshwar, Ashwin trio did completely well which resulted in a huge margin. Luck went their way, and they had a few questionable calls, fifty-fifty ones which went their way. They have now won three straight series in the Caribbean after losing seven of their first eight. “They try and go and win a medal for us”, he said. We have been able to seal the game because of the effort of those two. Three, I haven’t batted too much in Test cricket, but I’ve batted enough in other forms in worldwide cricket to not feel uncomfortable. “No.3 comes more naturally to me because I’ve played 170-180 ODIs and I’ve batted 130 ODIs at no.3. Lot of credit goes to those two as well”, Kohli signed off. Our bodies are accustomed to the workloads of global cricket but it is far different.
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“We will not wait for another match because you never know if you play one or two bad sessions the series could be leveled”, he said. “Then we had the preparatory camp in Bangalore, so that’s the time when I started preparing for this series in particular”, he signed off. “So it is a transition that we have to try to open up and adjust to as quickly as possible”.
