Team India skipper Virat Kohli and head coach Ravi Shastri seemed pretty confident ahead of their departure for England for the World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand and the five-match Test series against the hosts in August-September. Also read From beer bottles to his throwbacks photos, netizens wish Ravi Shastri on his 59th birthday"In the past we've landed three days prior to the schedule and had a great tour. Kohli first answered saying that he has definitely aged but then said that he never imagined that he was going to be leading the side in the first-ever WTC final in 2021. "If in 2014, you would have told me that in 2021 I'm going to play the WTC final, I would have had a tough time believing that. Coach Shastri too was quick to respond to the same question saying, "The Kohli of 2021 is slimmer and fitter and only has five and half thousand more runs."

Source: dna June 02, 2021 14:26 UTC