Retired Sri Lankan speedster Chaminda Vaas has been impressed by the new look Indian team and the aggressive brand of cricket they played so far under Virat Kohli. Under Kohli’s captaincy, India have played 5 Test matches and they secured their first victory in the second Test match of the ongoing Test series.
“It is good that India are playing aggressive cricket. All good sides do, especially when they play with five bowlers. They are rebuilding under Virat Kohli and I like their aggressive brand of cricket. Playing five bowlers gives a certain balance to the teams. But that is not always possible. Then different combinations are tried out. There may not be proper all-rounders in there, but all good sides have players who can perform dual roles,” said Vaas,”
Vaas pointed out that the Indians were bogged down when the match turned on its head courtesy a blinder-of-a-knock from Dinesh Chandimal but did well to bounce back in Colombo. The highly-successful former Sri Lankan pacer reckoned that the hosts will have to play really good cricket to beat Kohli & Co. again.
“Batsmen tend to struggle in the fourth innings whenever they are facing indifferent targets. It was a high total for Sri Lanka and they couldn’t cope with it. Something similar happened with India in Galle too. They were just chasing 176, a very small total, but they got bogged down and paid the price. They got bogged down after the match turned against them. But they didn’t let that happen again. Sri Lanka will have to play very good cricket to try to beat them again,” he said.