Current side is the best Indian team ever, remarks Virender Sehwag

Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag recently spoke at length about the upcoming Test series against Australia. He was present at a sports themed literary festival named ‘Sportale’ where he remarked the current Indian side as the best ever in the recent times. India are scheduled to host Australia for a four-match Test series starting on February 23 at Pune.

Prior to this series, the team had thoroughly outplayed the touring sides of New Zealand, England and Bangladesh. Talking about the Australia series, as per the quotes in Indian Express, the former cricketer predicted that India will win the series 3-0 or 3-1.

He went on to add that the team has the right balance of pacers and spinners. The batting line up looks better than ever and that makes this team capable of doing well at home as well as in overseas conditions. He pointed out that India have won 8 of their last 9 Tests and that is a great achievement for the side. He, however, cautioned the Indian team to not be complacent as there are chances of the either of the two departments collapsing sometime soon in the upcoming series.

“The balance that this team has, the quality of their fast bowlers and spinners accompanied by the batting firepower makes this the best Indian team. This team has the capability of winning a Test series abroad,” noted Virender Sehwag.

“This team has been playing fantastic cricket. They have won 8 of their last 9 Tests and that is a great achievement. But the law of averages catches up with every team and in my reading, there will be a Test in this series where the bowling might not fire or the batsmen will slip up,” Sehwag further cautioned the home side.

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Sehwag was in full praise of skipper Virat Kohli. He called him as a ‘world class player’ and believes that the Delhi batsman will break many records in the future. The former cricketer had a word for former Indian skipper MS Dhoni too. Dhoni was recently sacked as the Rising Pune Supergiants skipper in the IPL.

Commenting on this story, Virender Sehwag quoted, “I am happy that he isn’t captain because maybe now my team, Kings XI Punjab, can beat this Pune team. On a serious note, I believe that this is an internal decision of the franchise but he is one of the best ever captains India has ever had.”