“Determined” Kohli focused on his goals

New Delhi 8th July(HS). New sensational batsman of Indian Cricket Team Virat Kohli feels excited about the current England Tour as its for the first time Kohli will be playing a Test Match at Lords. This time we’ll see a Virat Kohli with a great mindset to score as much as he can for the team. 

Kohli feels determined before the opening test match of the 5 Test match series at Trent Bridge. Kohli spoke with appropriate respect for the challenge. "I'll be playing a Test at Lord's for the first time so all in all a very exciting tour for me personally because I have never played Test cricket here before. I am really looking forward to it. I have some goals I want to achieve, and I have been thinking about them. I am pretty excited about playing here, and it is right up there with the toughest venues for subcontinent players."

They might not have played here before, but Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara are being talked of as the meat in the Indian batting line-up, and the two wickets that every bowling unit is targeting. Kohli said he and Pujara are conscious of that, but don't want to let expectations weigh them down.

The horror of 2011 will follow India until such a time they have righted it. Kohli said they didn't need to think too much about that defeat. "We haven't spoken about what we did wrong in that series," Kohli said. "We've spoken about the positives we could take out of it. A guy who played brilliantly in that series, Rahul Dravid, is mentoring us right now, speaking about his experiences. That's a big plus. We can't focus on the things that went wrong. You don't want to think about them. That was a different time.

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