"virat-kohli"

India had defeated England by 317 runs in the second Test and now both teams are getting ready to battle it out in the day-night Test at the newly-built Motera Stadium.

The speedster set to become second Indian pacer after Kapil Dev to play 100 Tests.

Kohli also revealed that he had a chat with Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar about his struggle after the tour.

The Australian was open in sharing his thoughts of playing at the Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore and the cricketer got his wish when he was bought for Rs 14.25 cr.

"...it's not a great feeling to wake up knowing that you won't be able to score runs and I think all batsmen have felt that at some stage that you are not in control of anything at all," India skipper recalled

And the RCB too obliged shelling out Rs 14.25 crore to buy him. However, this left the twitterati in splits. While Maxwell failed to perform to his potential in his IPL history, barring just once in 2014, he has always struggled.

Going into the Ahmedabad Test, India have the advantage and Ramiz Raja credited Kohli for his gritty 62-run knock in the second innings after being dismissed for a duck in the first innings.

"But from the second innings onwards in the first game, we picked up and were on the money in terms of our body language," Kohli said.

The off spinner puts India on brink of a massive series-levelling victory against England

At the tea break, India had reached 221/8 in their second innings, with Ashwin and Ishant Sharma batting on 68 and 0 respectively.

India are slated to take on England in five T20Is, following the culmination of the ongoing four-Test series, part of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC)

It was a dream start for England as India lost five wickets in the first session on the back of some fine glove work by birthday boy Ben Foakes

Rohit and Rahane add 162 runs much to the delight of cheering fans, who return to stadium

I think it was just being in the same dressing room as some absolute superstars like that was really special. I sort of leant on AB a lot. He gave me some great advice along the way.

Kohli’s men eye a good slugfest even as resolute England make four changes

Manjrekar said, I wouldn't say India had bad tactics or they blundered on tactics. Team selection I think was fair. People are talking about Kuldeep Yadav now because Shahbaz Nadeem hasn't bowled well.

Kohli was heard complaining to the umpires on the fourth day of the match on Monday. India lost by 227 runs on Sunday.

New Zealand have already qualified for the WTC final, to be held at Lord's later in the year, winning 70.0 per cent of their matches (with no other series scheduled).

After winning the toss, England posted a massive first-innings score of 578, riding on skipper Joe Root's 218.

At Lunch, India were in all sorts of trouble with their scorecard reading 144/6, still 276 runs behind the target.