1st Test: India will keep attacking, says Virat Kohli

Indian skipper Virat Kohli has declared that his side will look to play 'attacking cricket"' preferably with "five specialist bowlers" in order to set the tone for the four-match Test series against the West Indies

Antigua: Indian skipper Virat Kohli has declared that his side will look to play "attacking cricket" preferably with "five specialist bowlers" in order to set the tone for the four-match Test series against the West Indies.

"I am always in the favour of playing five bowlers because if we play more batsmen, you can score 700 runs in a Test but that doesn't help in any way.

India skipper Virat Kohli with head coach Anil Kumble. Pic/PTI

"You need to take 20 wickets to win a Test match. So our top five batsmen plus the wicketkeeper will have to take responsibility and raise a big score so that we can bowl them out twice," Kohli said at the pre-match press conference.

No worries over small totals?
"Even if we do need put on a big score, we need to get enough runs so that we don't need to bat for long the second time. This has been our mindset for the last two seasons and we want to start the series with that same mind set that our bowling should be strong enough to take 20 wickets," Kohli added.

Sorry, can't disclose combo
Kohli said that he has a combination in mind but will not reveal it. "We have a combination in our mind, but I cannot really disclose that now. But we have learnt from the past after playing in Australia and Sri Lanka.

We have learnt that we need to attack from the first Test itself and set the tone for the series. Therefore our strongest bowling unit needs to and as a batting line-up, we need to take responsibility."

5
Number of Test wins achieved by India in the West Indies

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