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Time to start winning Tests – Virat Kohli

'Need to strengthen our fitness level' – Virat Kohli

Rather than his antecedent MS Dhoni's reliable open accentuation on procedure over results, Virat Kohli, India's Test commander, has asked his side to begin focussing on winning Test matches, as opposed to playing with the outlook of "realizing constantly." Speaking to the media before the group's takeoff to Bangladesh for a visit involving a Test and three ODIs, Kohli said that unless the group added to a dream of winning Test matches, they would miss the mark concerning the objectives they needed to accomplish.

"We have learnt a great deal however I don't think we need to continue playing with the outlook of 'we need to continue realizing constantly'. I believe now is the ideal time - we have sufficiently played Tests so we begin executing our abilities and getting results our direction and have the vision and the center to win Test matches, not simply go out there with the mentality of learning with each diversion," Kohli said. "Clearly, you find out about the amusement consistently, you learn observing on TV also.

Will bend over as head mentor if necessary – Ravi Shastri

Ravi Shastri, the India group chief, has said that given the vicinity of three partner mentors, the side does not require a head mentor, and regardless of the possibility that it does, he can venture in when required.

"We have got three mentors, we needn't bother with another adviser. I will bend over as head mentor if need be, so there is no issue at all," said Shastri when asked whether India would miss having a mentor after Duncan Fletcher's residency arrived at an end post the World Cup.

Shastri's residency as group executive has been reached out till the Bangladesh visit yet he implied that he could proceed in the position further too.

"When we return from Bangladesh, I will sit with them (the BCCI) and choose. I don't discount anything. I may be there any longer than what you might suspect."

"We have been playing for quite some time now. Unless we need to have a dream of winning Test matches, execute our aptitudes against the best on the planet, we are missing the mark concerning the objectives that we need to accomplish. We realize what we need to accomplish as a unit, it’s simply the mental thing that must be correct. We have learnt in the previous few Test matches and months however beginning now, we need to begin accomplishing the outcomes that we truly need, not go far from each Test match considering what we have learnt from it."

The erratic Test against Bangladesh will be the side's first after their voyage through Australia, where they lost the four-match arrangement 2-0. Kohli had a great keep running of structure in that arrangement, scoring about 700 runs, furthermore captained India in two amusements - first in Adelaide as stand-in and afterward in the last diversion in Sydney, after Dhoni reported his retirement from Test cricket.

Prior to his first visit as a full-time chief, Kohli additionally focused on the need to make a domain that permitted players flexibility to concentrate on wellness and abilities. He expressed that minor changes in demeanor, wellness levels and change in abilities were objectives for the group. These progressions, he said, would advantage the group as they get ready for a home season that incorporates Tests and constrained overs arrangement against South Africa coming full circle in the World T20, which will be detained in India one year from now.

"We need to make a domain firstly where players feel they are setting down deep roots for some time. They feel certain about their capacities. Also, on the wellness front, its the essential center of any game and on the off chance that you manage that and on the off chance that you reinforce that will help us in the following three-four years when fellows experience intense stages in Test cricket in light of the fact that they are up there with the wellness and aptitude levels too.

"So it must be a mix of both and that is the thing that we basically need to concentrate on. That is something we feel we can enhance and its undoubtedly the need of great importance to the extent Test cricket is concerned. We have arranges and desire and objectives that we need to accomplish, however it will happen with extra special care. Yesterday was a little step towards it. Today we begin honing, then we have the Test in Bangladesh and from that point we have a major home season."