Kohli gave good advice to me, says Rahul

India started with a six wickets win over Australia which gave big boost to go forward and they travelled to Delhi from Chennai for their secund game against Afganistan on October11. Undoubtedly Virat Kohli and K.L Rahul were the heroes who put on 165 runs fourth wicket stand to seal their win against Australia.

India captain Rohit Sharma, speaking at the post-match presentation on Sunday , admitted to being nervous while India had their unprecedented meltdown to 2 for 3 – it was the first time in men’s ODI cricket that three of their top four were out for ducks, and no team had previously gone on to win an ODI after losing three wickets with few runs on the board.

“You don’t want to start your innings like that when you are chasing that kind of a target,” Rohit said. “But you’ve got to give credit to the Aussies – they bowled pretty well. Some loose shots there as well [from India], but that happens. When you have that kind of a target, you want to get off the mark as quickly as possible; try and score as many runs as possible in the powerplay.

Asked at the post-match presentation – while Rahul picked up the Player of the Match award – what the conversation was with his batting senior partner Virat Kohli was when he came out to bat in that precarious situation, he smiled and said: “Quite honestly, not a lot of conversation. I was just trying to catch my breath as I just had a shower. I thought I would get a good half an hour – [or] an hour’s – break, put the feet up and just rest up. But I was out there in no time, so there was a bit of rush. I was just trying to get my breath back.”

On a more serious note, Kohli, he said, reckoned the pair would have to do some Test-match batting for a while to get India back on track on a difficult Chepauk pitch, where India’s spinners had dictated terms before Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer – that is, three of India’s top four – were dismissed for ducks by Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc.

“Virat said there’s big help in the wicket, and [we] just have to play proper shots and play like Test cricket for some time and see where it goes,” Rahul said. “That was mostly the plan, and happy that we did the job for the team.”

However from Chennai to Delhi wicket is more flat and Indians have new ideas to play against Afghanistan on a batting favourable track .

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