“Getting his feedback biggest help,” says Virat Kohli on Ravi Shastri’s role

Virat Kohli on Ravi Shastri’s role: The Indian captain praised the Head Coach for his invaluable feedback on the Indian team.

India Head Coach Ravi Shastri is one of those individuals associated with the national team who gets severely criticized when the team losses but is seldom praised on days when the team does well.

In the recent past, the critics have went on to say that Shastri is merely a yes-man to India captain Virat Kohli. When the same news was doing the rounds, Kohli himself quashed all such reports during a press conference.

Speaking after India’s Adelaide victory, Kohli was wax lyrical about Shastri’s ability to read the game. Citing the latter’s rich experience, Kohli was quoted as saying, “Because he [Shastri] has done so much commentary, and he’s seen the game so much and has played so much himself – just watching the game – he knows where the game is heading.”

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Kohli further highlighted Shastri’s feedback being his biggest help for him as a player and as a captain and also speaking on the coach not wanting to change the captain by any means.

“So just getting feedback from him constantly has been the biggest help for me, in terms of moulding my own personality into captaincy. He’s someone who has never tried to change me just to be able to fit into the captaincy mode,” Kohli added.

Speaking on his vision for India in Test matches, Kohli said that he wants the team to become a ‘superpower’ in cricket’s ancestral format. “I wouldn’t say goal but I would rather speak of a vision, which is for India to be a superpower in Test cricket or a very, very strong side in Test cricket in the years to come,” Kohli concluded.