SYDNEY: Unfazed despite four successive defeats, a defiant Virat Kohli today insisted that the Indian cricket team is “not mentally bogged down” and said it would like to win the next four matches, including tomorrow’s final ODI, to cap the tour of Australia on a positive note.
The star batsman said that despite lagging 4-0 in the current ODI series, the Indian team’s morale is still up. India play the hosts in a three-match T20 series after the ODI series concludes with the fifth and final game here tomorrow.
“If we were mentally bogged down we wouldn’t be able to compete at all. We just have to be smarter about chasing down totals. If the results were different, there would be different questions and different debates. But we have to respect this result and Australia are a tough side, and they know these conditions better,” Kohli said at the pre-match press conference.
“They are on a streak of winning 18 games at home. So we need some extra bit of experience in such conditions. We would like to learn because we have to keep coming back here and we want to do well here.(agencies)
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