{"id":85830,"date":"2017-11-27T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=85830"},"modified":"2023-09-14T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:53:25","slug":"kohli-bats-for-aggressive-approach-in-south-africa-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=85830","title":{"rendered":"Kohli bats for aggressive approach in South Africa tour."},"content":{"rendered":"
Johnson Cherian.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Aggression has been the hallmark of his batting and India captain Virat Kohli feels his teammates will need to adopt a similar approach to produce results in their gruelling tour of South Africa up ahead.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Kohli was at his aggressive best in the just-concluded second Test against Sri Lanka as he smashed a strokeful 213 off 267 balls to help India amass a huge first innings total.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Kohli\u2019s knock and centuries from Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma ensured that India had ample time in their hands to bowl Sri Lanka out for a massive innings and 239 runs win in the just-concluded Test here.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cI just wanted to bat the way I bat. Get into good positions and rotate strike and score quickly so our bowlers have time to bowl the opposition out,\u201d Kohli said at the post-match presentation ceremony today.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cWe will need that (approach) overseas so I was looking at doing that. I always wanted to better myself in scoring big hundreds for the simple reason that the team benefits. When you lose concentration after a hundred, maybe two wickets can fall quickly. A set batsman can play shots easier than a new batsman so I started thinking in that way and my fitness helps me bat for longer periods,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Pujara has been a consistent performer for India in Test matches, but it was heartening to see the return of Vijay and Rohit, both of whom smashed tons to give Kohli a happy selection headache for the upcoming matches.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cPujara we know, he\u2019s been very consistent. Vijay was playing after a while, he takes pride in playing Test cricket. I know it hurt him to be out and he came back really well.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cRohit as well, making a strong case for himself in the future. He will always be there when we speak about combinations. We have a lot f Test cricket coming up,\u201d said Kohli, who was effusive in his praise for the trio.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Pat for pacers<\/span><\/h5>\n
The Indian skipper also had words of appreciation for his bowling unit, especially the pacers.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cBhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar) has played a lot of cricket for India in the last few months. Ishant (Sharma), (Mohammad) Shami and Umesh (Yadav) did not play so much. But they bowled a lot of overs in first-class cricket and they always say that\u2019s important for rhythm,\u201d Kohli said.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cEven on this pitch, they were excellent. Although the spinners did a good job for us, Ishant was the standout bowler.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
Kohli, who was adjudged man-of-the-match for his record breaking double ton, reiterated that with no time in hand, the team is taking the ongoing series against Sri Lanka as a preparation for the tour of South Africa.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cWe would like to think we want to prepare for South Africa. That\u2019s why we asked for pitches with help for the fast bowlers. This one (Nagpur) deteriorated by the second day. But Kolkata was the ideal wicket,\u201d he said referring to the trip starting December 27.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not enough time in between to prepare so we have to use the time we have now for a big tour coming up.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
We were outplayed, says Chandimal<\/span><\/h5>\n
Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal was at a loss of words when asked to analyse his team\u2019s shoddy performance in the match.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Chandimal blamed his batsmen and said they need to put up big totals in first innings in order to stand a chance against a team like India.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cIt was a good toss to win. Unfortunately, we were outplayed from the first day of the game. Our batting unit let us down again. You have to score at least 350 plus against India to win or even stay in it for five days,\u201d Chandimal said.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cBefore we came here, we had a gameplan. Then we said to the guys, if you get a start, you have to bat long. But they scored only 50-60 runs and got out. Its unfortunate but I\u2019m sure they will learn.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
Chandimal said seniors players like Angelo Mathews needs to step up and set example for the younger guys.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cAngelo is the one who is the most senior guy in the line-up. And if he is not scoring, our team goes down. As senior players you need to stand up and perform so the youngsters can follow. I\u2019m sure he will stand up and make it count again,\u201d the visiting captain said.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnson Cherian. Aggression has been the hallmark of his batting and India captain Virat Kohli feels his teammates will need to adopt a similar approach to produce results in their gruelling tour of South Africa up ahead. Kohli was at his aggressive best in the just-concluded second Test against Sri Lanka as he smashed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,44,50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-news","9":"category-sports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166358,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85830\/revisions\/166358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}