Reporter: Kohli Sir, What Should be our Opening Combination In West Indies Tour….? But we need to forget all that now and totally concentrate on the next match. That’s how we become a better team.
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India have been scheduled to play 13 Test matches after the current West Indies series, and nine of them will be against England (five) and Australia (four) – but they are all going to be played on Indian dustbowls – and that means there’s no way we could watch in the near future the Indian team doing things that until recently were viewed unlikely even to dream about.
India is in West Indies for a four-match Test series under the captaincy of Virat Kohli.
The second Test starts in Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday.
“Some of our guys need to work on their pace but it will take some time to get it right”.
“Wow, I didn’t know that”, Kohli said when told that this was India’s biggest win outside Asia, before adding, “Just feels good to get a win on the board, always good to start well”. “So it was good to get some rest in the evening, and the bowlers’ attitude was very good, all of them voluntarily said, yes, we will bowl, and the spinners took the responsibility”.
If West Indies look to play an extra fast bowler in Jamaica, they will have to choose between two uncapped players Joseph and the 25-year-old Barbados quick Miguel Cummins, who was part of the squad for the first Test but did not make the playing XI.
India wrapped up West Indies for 243 in their first innings and then concluded the match after bowling out the Caribbean team for 231 runs in the second innings.
Dropped on 43 by new wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich off Gabriel in the morning session, Ashwin played the supporting role to his captain in a 168-run fifth-wicket stand that drained the enthusiasm from the home side before lunch.
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Reflecting on newly-appointed head coach Anil Kumble’s contribution to the team, Mishra said the legendary cricketer keeps guiding him about various aspects of batting and bowling and that the team is really lucky to have him.
