Skipper Virat Kohli wants his troops to focus on results and not worry about personal milestones. has said that the importance of personal milestones had diminished in the Indian Test side under his leadership, PTI reported.
Speaking after India’s victory over England in the fourth Test of the ongoing five-match series, Kohli said that the importance of personal milestones was no longer significant under his stewardship.
“One thing that I really wanted the team to do was express themselves in Test matches and not think about personal performances.”
“Because a lot of the times, you have an hour in the Test match where you can take the game away and you are still not willing to go for it because you are close to your milestone or things like that. These are the things that we have gotten out of our system completely. We just look at the situation and play and that is why we have been in winning positions more often than not,” Kohli added.
Kohli said that even the team was picked in a way to guarantee positive results in the series and not just a single match.
“Even with the teams that we have played, we have made quite a few changes and the guys have bought into it. So, as a captain, that gives you total freedom to play the 11 according to the conditions that you are going to play in, and the ultimate aim has been to win games and win series. Not only one Test match, but to win series. That is why we have won five in a row,” he said.
“And as I said, it is been an outstanding effort by the guys so far and long it may continue because we are going to play for another 8-10 years and this mindset needs to continue for us to be a top-quality consistent side,” he added.