India captain Virat Kohli has no regrets that his India lost the
first test to Australia
Kohli, who led India's hits with a brilliant century in both innings, In Adelaide Oval First Test india looses by 48-run, but the batsman praised his team mates to play game for a win.
Kohli said "I'm really proud of the way the boys played," At no point did we back off. And we are not going to back
off either. If at any stage that we had in mind that we might play for a draw,
we would have lost by 150 runs, to be honest. "So we went for it. That is what I am happy about."
Kohli bacame skipper for the first time after regular skipper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni withdrew because of injury, Kohli became the second Indian batsman after Vijay Hazare to score
two hundreds (116 and 148) in a Test at Adelaide. Among Indian batsmen, he became the fourth after Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid to achieve this feat.
In doing so, Kohli matched Greg Chappell's feat of scoring twin
hundreds in a Test in his first match as captain. The Australia had achieved it
against West Indies in 1975-76 at Brisbane.
Kohli added "I was only thinking about the target trying to calculate who
I was going after. That's the first time I have been able to do that, in Test
cricket at least. That was something new for me. So that felt good.
"I was hoping, when Mitchell Marsh was swinging at the
boundary, that he will drop the catch. But he didn't. There are no regrets
about playing that shot. I could have placed it better. Had it gone for a
boundary, things could have been different.
Despite losing the match, Kohli also impressed with his captaincy
but said he said no to taking over from Dhoni, who will be back in place
when the second test starts in Brisbane next week.
"I would be very happy that he is going to be fit and
available," Kohli said.
On the match report Off-spinner Nathan Lyon claimed seven wickets
(7-152) to help the Aussies win the first Test at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday & Also become Man of the match.
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