Kohli And India Complete Home Stretch In Style

Kohli And India Complete Home Stretch In Style

- Sreelata S. Yellamrazu

With the final Twenty20 international against Australia out of the way, Virat Kohli’s team India have successfully rounded up the past year as one of enormous stretches, reaches and new benchmarks set, as they set their sights on new challenges abroad.

With team India having already set quite the unique record of reaching the number one spot in both, Test and one day internationals, ICC rankings simultaneously, there is every reason for India to cheer and applaud the strides that the team has taken under Virat Kohli’s captaincy. The third Twenty international between hosts India and visitors Australia ended predictably in a washed out affair after unprecedented rains put paid to the final match of Australia’s tour.

If the season at this time last year began with New Zealand coming over and Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja lighting up the wickets column as India’s lead spinners in Tests, it has been the running theme when the visiting batsmen found themselves no match to the Indian spinners, even as recently as in the series against Sri Lanka and Australia when Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal emerged as the first choice spinners in limited overs cricket.