India have been widely rated as one of the best Test teams in the world under Virat Kohli’s captaincy, notably recording back-to-back Test series wins in Australia and spending 42 months at the top of the Test rankings. India currently lead England 1-0 in the five-match Test series between the two teams, beating the hosts in the 2nd Test at Lord’s by 151 runs.
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Former South Africa fast bowler Allan Donald said that Kohli had envisioned India’s dominance back in 2015. “I remember Virat’s words in 2015 when he said to me India will become world’s No.1 Test team and he wasn’t wrong,” Donald said in a video on YouTube channel Cricket Life Stories.
India’s form in away Tests had suffered an alarming dip in the years before Kohli took over as captain from MS Dhoni in 2014. Between 2011 and 2014, India had won only two out of 22 away Tests and lost 13 under Dhoni’s captaincy.
“He knew where he was going. He said: ‘I want this to be the fittest team, I want us to be the greatest team on the planet, knowing that we can play away from home, knowing we can beat anyone and that’s going to take a very good bowling attack to do so,'” said Donald.
