Virat Kohli not impressed with Steve Smith's mind games

In the past week the scenario in both Australian and Indian camp completely reversed as it was supposed to be. While Australia suddenly started thinking of retaining the trophy after a sudden win while India still can’t digest the “humiliating the loss is in their own backyard against their strenth.” And moreover the surrendering of their batsmen. Renowned, technically masters of playing spin.

In life when some good incident happens for a long time human beings have a tendency to take take the results for granted rather than being confident. It proved exactly true in Team India’s case. The visitors came as under dogs and took advantage of that tag then over performed and made the dream a reality. But in another part of reality is that Team India has been invincible on their home soil. They piled the runs, they grabbed the 20 wickets and all that on most occasions was within 3 days.

“I think they will feel under a little bit of pressure,” Australian skipper Steve Smith said in the pre-match interaction with the. “Obviously, going into this series, all I heard was 4-0 to them. So they’re one down and need to come back. We’re one win away from [retaining] the Border-Gavaskar trophy. Things can happen pretty quickly here.

“So we might be one or two sessions away from getting that back. I’m sure they’ll feel under a bit of pressure.”

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Shortly after that, his counterpart was sitting in front of the journos and they conveyed Smith’s message to which Virat said, “Me? As a team? Does it look like [we’re under pressure]?” Kohli said, smilingly. “I’m pretty relaxed. I’m happy. I’m smiling. It’s fine, those are his views and [he can say] whatever he wants to say. I think it’s time we focus on our skills more than what Australia is saying or preparing like. I know these minds games in these press conferences are something they’re very good at.

“I’m pretty relaxed. I’m happy. I’m smiling. It’s fine, those are his views and [he can say] whatever he wants to say. I think it’s time we focus on our skills more than what Australia is saying or preparing like. I know these minds games in these press conferences are something they’re very good at.

“We’re still going to play the cricket that we’ve played for the last two years and see where the series ends after the fourth game.” Virat said.

The ammunition has been loaded both the teams have done their preparation and it is now time to see who rules Bengaluru.

Written by Priyanka Samanta