Legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar reckons that the Indian skipper Virat Kohli still has a “lot to learn” tactically after their humiliating 1-4 defeat against England in the recently concluded five-match Test series.

As per the reports in India Today, Gavaskar said, “He (Virat) still has a lot to learn. Like we saw in South Africa earlier and now in England too, there were instances when right field placements or timely bowling changes made by him could have made a big difference. That was missing again. It has just been two years (he took over four years back) since he took over as a captain so at times the lack of experience shows.”

However, the ‘Little Master’ came in support of Kohli when inquired about skipper’s much-publicised reaction to a journalist’s query about whether he agreed with coach Ravi Shastri on this being the best traveling team in last 15 years.

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While the question asked by the reporter was “justified”, Gavaskar felt maybe the timing of it was wrong. He said, “That is probably the wrong time to ask him that question. He (Virat) must have been hurting from the defeat. Maybe the reporter was perfectly justified in asking that but I don’t think any skipper would have responded with a ‘you are right but we are wrong’ statement.”

The legendary opener said that one shouldn’t bother too much of Shastri’s comments as well as he said, “His team was 1-3 down and maybe he just wanted to end on a high. I don’t think that we should read too much into Virat’s reaction either. It was clear that the skipper was disappointed with what had happened and maybe he responded that way.”

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Team India is scheduled to tour Australia at the end of November. Hence, Gavaskar reckons that the Australian batters aren’t likely to pose the same threat to the Indian bowlers. He elaborated, “For Australia tour, the biggest hope is that without Steve Smith and David Warner India will have a pretty inexperienced batting line up to contend with and we might as well win. Whether the Indian batsmen will get the runs, even if it’s 180 or 150 to win, against Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood that we’ll have to wait and see.”