The World Test Championship (WTC) final at Southampton is slated to begin from June 18.
Former India wicket-keeper batsman Parthiv Patel is one of them as the southpaw talked about how the Indian skipper Virat Kohli should take time against this New Zealand bowling attack.
“I think probably he will have to give himself a bit of time and try to think what he did in 2018 - where he got a number of hundreds.”
“So, probably he is better equipped than he was in 2014, but there will be challenges and there will be challenges of a variety of fast bowlers. The reason being -- it is not a one-dimensional fast bowling attack,” Patel said.
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After a sub-par tour in 2014, where Kohli just scored 134 runs in five Tests at a poor average of 13.40, came back strongly in 2018, when the Delhi-based batsman smashed 593 runs in the five-Test series with two centuries.
Thus, even the former India opener and explosive batsman Virender Sehwag also talked about the importance of Kohli showing patience in this Test match.
“I think Kohli should show patience and he should leave a lot of balls. He has to show patience and I am sure he knows that. I remember in 2014 when he didn't score runs, he came back and spent time with Sachin Tendulkar and went back (in 2018) and scored a lot of runs,” Sehwag told ANI.
The final Test match between Virat Kohli-led Team India and Kane Williamson’s New Zealand at Southampton is slated to begin from 18 June.
(With ANI Inputs)