Indian captain Virat Kohli on Sunday praised the home and away format of the World Test Championship, saying it would be more balancing for the team’s performance. India have easily thrashed the West Indies by 2-0 in an away series before domination at home against South Africa (3-0) and Bangladesh (2-0) to be in the top of the points table of WTC with 360 points.
“I think the more balanced format would be one series home and one away. We are playing very good cricket but we played only two Tests away in the Test Championship,” said Virat Kohli.
“You can praise our team on our performance. But to say that we are dominating like no other team is a very subjective thing to think of. If we played two series away and two at home and we had 300 points, then you can say we played really well,” he added.
According to the existing format, a team is scheduled to play six series in the WTC, three home and three away as well. He even gave the example of Ashes series earlier in August-September when the series ended in a draw of 2-2.
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“I don’t think there should be any kind of tags attached to any team. In the Test Championship, even if we make the finals, there’s only one game so whoever plays will win the championship. So it doesn’t matter how many points you have at the end of the day. But a good format would be one home one away and then you keep that balance and keep moving forward,” he shared.
India also became the first team to complete four successive innings wins recently. Virat Kohli further said that they will try to win the next series against New Zealand next year as well.
“I can only say we are at the top of our game. You can’t judge your team’s dominance with just seven games. We’re quite excited about how we are playing and what the challenges are. Now the frame of mind is to get to the next series in Test cricket. And not like we finished playing at home let’s see what happens abroad. We are waiting to play Test cricket. So I think that mindset has changed now,” he added.
