Indian batting not only about Virat Kohli: Stokes

TIL Desk Sports/ Indian batting is not just about Virat Kohli and that has been been proved in the ongoing five-match series where the visitors mostly have been at the receiving end, said England all-rounder Ben Stokes.

Virat Kohli fell for 15 but India still had a solid day three with the bat with Lokesh Rahul making 199 and other contributions coming from Parthiv Patel (71) and Karun Nair (71 batting). At close of play, the hosts were 391/4, trailing England by 86 runs.

“In every game, someone (from the Indian team) has gone on to get a big score. It’s nice to see the back of Kohli but yes unfortunately someone else obviously ends up getting a big score,” said Stokes. India ended up scoring 331 runs in a single day after resuming at 60 for no loss, leaving England with plenty to ponder going into tomorrow.

“I think we tried a lot but sometimes you are going to hold your hands up and say the partnership that they had throughout the day, they played really well.”The things that we tried to do, maybe we didn’t get the rewards that we deserved. Broad getting Kohli with a good bit of plan bowling, changing the angle that came round and up the wicket with the change ups. We can say that we didn’t get the rewards for our efforts,” lamented Stokes.