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#2 'I am allowed to experiment a little bit and fail at times', says Kohli
After a humiliating 10-wicket loss at the hands of Australia in the first ODI in Mumbai yesterday, Indian skipper Virat Kohli responded to a flurry of questions about the change of batting order yet again.
To accommodate KL Rahul in the top-order, Kohli decided to demote himself at four which eventually back-fired as India faltered at the end to be all-out for 255. Speaking at the post-match presentation, he explained the experimentation process and how it backfires sometimes. Kohli accepted the fact that the home team was dominated by the visitors in all the departments of the game but the fans needed to keep patience to find a settled line-up in the limited-overs internationals. India will play Australia next on January 17 in Rajkot and Bengaluru two days later.
"We were outplayed in all three departments. It’s a very strong Australian team and if you don’t play well enough they will hurt you and we saw that... With bat in hand, I don’t think we had enough intent to go out there and take risks, get those extra runs and put the bowlers under pressure.”
Speaking about demoting himself to number 4, Kohli said,
“We’ve had this discussion many times in the past as well. Because of the way KL has been batting, we have tried to fit him in the batting line-up. But I don’t think it’s gone quite our way whenever I batted at four so probably will have to rethink about that one.”
"It’s about giving some guys opportunities. Every now and then, it’s about putting people up there and testing them. People need to relax and not panic with one game. I am allowed to experiment a little bit and fail at times. Today was one of the days it didn’t come off.”
Full article: India vs Australia 2020: 'I am allowed to experiment a little bit and fail at times', says Virat Kohli
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