Indian captain Virat Kohli on Monday brushed aside concerns about his form as he looked ahead to the decisive third Test against South Africa starting at Newlands on Tuesday.
Without a century in his past 14 Tests, Kohli said he believed he was still making important con-tributions to the team.
“I don’t look at myself from the lens that the outside world looks at me with,” said the 33-year-old who has been a fixture in the Test team since making his debut against the West Indies in 2011.
“The standards that they are talking about have been set by myself, they are not an utterance from outside.
“I take a lot of pride in wanting to do the best thing for the team and wanting to perform regularly for the team.
low and I had to lead from the front because I knew that I had to play with a very high intensity to be able to drive this passion and this motivation and this environment.—AFP