{"id":1099,"date":"2018-09-12T07:11:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T07:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2018-09-12T07:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T07:11:40","slug":"shame-shame-kohli-kohli-says-team-has-character-lacks-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Shame Shame Kohli.. Kohli says team has character, lacks experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

London, <\/strong>Observing that the five-match Test series against England was highly competitive, India skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday said India played fearless cricket and the team has a lot of character but lacked in experience.<\/p>\n

India lost the fifth and final Test by 118 runs despite heroic resistance from opener KL Rahul (149) and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant (114) in the second innngs.<\/p>\n

England, thus, won the series by a comprehensive 4-1 margin after India were bowled out for 345 chasing 464 for victory.<\/p>\n

“We have character in the team and we just need some experience,” Kohli said at the post match presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n

Lauding the efforts of Rahul and Pant, who raised hopes of an improbable win, Kohli said the team’s willingless to fight till the end came to the fore.<\/p>\n

“I think a lot of credit has to go to the two young guys. The kind of cricket we have played might not show on the scorecard.<\/p>\n

“Pant showed a lot of grit and character. When you get into a zone when you are not thinking about the result, things go your way.<\/p>\n

“I am delighted for both the guys and it speaks of India’s future. We did not take out opportunities.”<\/p>\n

Kohli, who has had a great series himself amassing 593 runs, added that the five games with packed crowd and some fascinating cricket on display has been a great advertisement for the longest format of the game.<\/p>\n

“Both the teams know this series has been a competitive one. This has been a great advert for Test cricket. The basic idea was to go out there and play the cricket we are supposed to do,” Kohli said.<\/p>\n

“England are a professional side and we realized that as the game changed with in two-three overs.<\/p>\n

“England also don’t go for draws and they played fearless cricket and so did we. That is why you won’t see draws,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London, Observing that the five-match Test series against England was highly competitive, India skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday said India played fearless cricket and the team has a lot of character but lacked in experience. India lost the fifth and final Test by 118 runs despite heroic resistance from opener KL Rahul (149) and wicketkeeper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}