Kohli's Team Is Not India's Best Batting Unit: Chappell

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    • Publish Date: Jan 9 2019 3:09PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 9 2019 3:09PM
Kohli's Team Is Not India's Best Batting Unit: Chappell

Former Australia captain Ian Chappell feels the Virat Kohli-led side is India's best in pace bowling and fielding but it is nowhere close to being the best in batting.

India defeated Australia 2-1 for their maiden Test series triumph Down Under, ending a 71-year wait. The historic victory has garnered widespread praise for Kohli's men with several former players lauding the gritty performance.

Asked if this was the best Indian team of all time on 'ESPNCricinfo', Chappell said, "This Indian side is the best fast bowling contingent I have seen from India and the best fielding side that I have seen from India."

"But it's not the best batting side. I have seen better batting combinations from India than this team," he added, but did not dwell on which batting line-up he considered the best.

Although Cheteshwar Pujara was adjudged man of the series for being the series' top-scorer, India's traditionally much-vaunted batting was, for once, overshadowed by the team's pacers.

The Indian pacers accounted for 50 of the 70 Australian wickets during the engagement. The visiting pace trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami combined for an average of 21.62 in the four-match series, while Australia's pace battery, comprising Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, averaged over 30.

Chappell said the Indian bowlers did well to exploit the conditions.

"I thought the Indian bowlers did really well and overall they out-bowled the Australians. They got more swing than the Australian bowlers. I think the seam position of the Indian fast bowlers was very good. They kept it up the whole time and perhaps that's why they swung the ball more than the Australians," he explained.


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Deeksha Sehrawat BHATNAGAR INTERNATIONAL (VASANT KUN

Significantly, India defeated the Aussie team 2-1 and ending the 71-year waiting period, for the first time on the Kangaroo earth, the Test series for the first time its name. ''Virat Kohli is an awesome batsman.'' said Sachin Tendulkar an awesome cricketer. I think that Virat Kohli has made a spectacular team of batsman, bowlers and fielders. So, Ian Chappel has said wrong in his words.

Rupa Pal School Of India

If India defeated Australia 2-1 for their maiden Test series & India has not shown it''s not the best batting side but only in terms of bowling-side & fielding-side then it was impossible to beat Australia .For,according to Ian Chappell Australia is best in terms of batting-side right ?

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