Southampton. India cricket team captain Virat Kohli has said that he is not in favor of deciding the best Test team on a one-match basis and said the World Test Championship final should be a ‘best of three’ event. Kohli’s remarks came after India lost by eight wickets against New Zealand in the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) at the Ageas Bowl here on Wednesday.
In a virtual press conference after the title match, captain Virat Kohli said, “Well, look, first of all, I don’t completely agree with deciding the best Test team in the world on a one match basis. If it’s a test series, it should be three test matches to test the team that team has the potential to come back into the series or blow up the other team completely. It’s not just two days of pressure for good cricket. Maybe and then you suddenly are not a good Test team. I don’t believe in that.”
He continued, “I think it’s going to be a tough grind and something that definitely needs to be really worked on in the future – at the end of three games, there’s effort, there’s ups and downs, at the end of the series. Things are changing during the course of time, a chance to rectify the things that you did wrong in the first game and then really see who is the better side during the three-match series or some other things would be a good idea of how things really are ”
Captain Virat Kohli further said, “So we are not very upset with this result, because we understand, as I said, what we have done as a Test team, not only in the last 18 months but, in the last three, four years. So it’s not a measure of who we are as a team and the ability and power that we have over the years.”
In this statement, Virat Kohli emphasized only on a Test series of at least three matches and said, “Series are remembered in Test cricket. I think it should be the definite form. I am not saying this because, Because we are not a winning team, but just for Test cricket and to make this saga completely memorable, I think it needs to be at least three matches in duration so that you have a series to remember. Because there’s going to be ups and downs and the two quality sides going at each other, knowing there’s a lot more on the line.”
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