Team India have lost the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) final on Wednesday to New Zealand. After the loss, India captain Virat Kohli has stated that he may bring the “right people with right mindset to perform” in the longer format just like their white-ball squad where everyone is ready to perform at the highest level.
However, his comments came after they failed to perform well in the WTC Final. Although the Indian captain didn’t name anyone, he expressed his displeasure at some of the players in the squad for not showing enough intent to score quickly which eventually put pressure on the entire batting unit as well. Notably, Cheteshwar Pujara scored 8 runs off 54 balls in the first innings and then managed only 15 runs off 80 balls in the second innings as well.
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“We will continue to reassess and continue to have conversations around what are the things required to strengthen our side and not follow or fall prey to certain patterns,” Virat Kohli said at the post match virtual press conference. “We will not wait for a year or so and have to plan ahead. If you see our white ball team now, we have great depth and guys are ready and confident. Same thing needs to be done with Test cricket. You have to reassess and replan and understand what dynamics work for the team and how we can be fearless. Bring in right people who have right mindset to perform.”
“We definitely need to work out better plans on understanding how to score runs. We have to stay in sync with the momentum of the game and not let the game drift away too much. I don’t think there is any technical difficulties as such It’s more down to game awareness and being more brave in putting bowlers under pressure and not allowing them to bowl in similar areas for longer periods of time unless it is absolutely overcast and ball swinging all over the place like it happened on day 1,” he shared.
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“The endeavour would be to try and score runs and not worry about getting out in testing conditions. That’s the way you can put opposition under pressure otherwise you are standing there hoping that you dont get out and you are not being optimistic enough. You have to take calculated risks against a quality bowling attack like NZ,” Virat Kohli concluded.
However, they will play a five-match Test series against England in August.
