Virat Kohli worships Test match cricket, says Ravi Shastri

TIL Desk Sports/ Former India chief coach Ravi Shastri on Monday lavished praise on the national team and skipper Virat Kohli for embracing Test cricket and being the “ambassador of the format over the last five years”.

Team India regained the top spot in the ICC Rankings by defeating New Zealand following their 372-run victory over the World Test Champions in the series-finale in Mumbai.

“I think if any team has been an ambassador for Test match over the last five years, it is this Indian cricket team. Virat worships Test match cricket, as do most of the team, which might surprise the world because of the amount of one-day cricket India plays, then IPL.

“If you ask anyone in the team, 99 percent of them would say they love Test match cricket. That’s why, what India have done in the last five years remain as the No. 1 team in the world at the end of every year,” Shastri, who coached India for 4 years, told renowned author Jeffrey Archer.