Team India’s hopes of lifting the ICC World Test Championship title rested within the palms of veterans Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane on Sunday. With India needing 280 runs extra to get on the Day 5 of the match on the Oval, the highlight is understandably on ‘chase grasp’ Kohli who has pulled off some dramatic run-chases for the Indian workforce over time. The odds have been overwhelmingly in Australia’s favour and the workforce proved precisely why by thumping India by 209 runs to carry the Test mace.

But, earlier than the beginning of play on Day 5, former England captain Nasser Hussain asserted that the match is not over till Kohli is on the pitch. In reality, with regards to run-chases, Hussain would not really feel there’s anybody on the planet who comes near the talismanic Indian.

“If there is one player in world cricket that you want in a run chase in any format, it is obviously Virat Kohli,” Hussain mentioned on the ICC’s Digital Daily after the conclusion of the Day 4 of the WTC Final in London.

“In run chases, in the history of the game, there is Virat Kohli, there is daylight and then there is the rest. He is always going to be the key man,” he added.

On Saturday, the ICC additionally shared a video that includes Kohli the place the batter revealed how he goes into every recreation, considering he would be the match-winner.

In the video, Kohli defined that he all the time desires to be the man who wins the sport for his workforce and is not somebody who’s content material with mere ‘contributions’.

“What motivates me is knowing that the opportunity I have, every game that I play for India to make my team win, I don’t think in sport there’s any bigger motivation than that. I wake up every morning, in any game that I play, believing that I am going to be the guy who makes my team win. And that’s what gets me going. The day that goes off and I am with just the contribution, I know that it won’t be the right time for me to continue. But, I am still excited to be the man that helps my team when I am batting out there. I want my team to be comfortable that they can breathe a sigh of relief that I am out there and I can do the job.

“That’s one thing I’ve all the time taken a variety of satisfaction in and I really feel very grateful to be ready the place the workforce can anticipate that from me. I nonetheless get up each morning believing that I could be the person for the workforce,” Kohli said in the video.