TEST SERIES AT HOME
Virat Kohli’s India keen to take down Australia for perfect end to season
The odds are heavily in favour of India ahead of Thursday’s opener between the world’s top two Test teams
New Delhi — The Indian Test juggernaut, with Virat Kohli at the wheel, has crushed almost everything in its path over the past 18 months and Australia will have to conjure up something special if they are to upset the hosts in their four-match series. With the opening Test between the world’s top two Test teams beginning in Pune on Thursday, the odds are heavily in favour of India, who have gone 19 Tests without defeat. In the final phase of their bumper home season, India are sitting pretty at the top of the Test rankings after six consecutive series victories. Significantly, their last three home series victories — over New Zealand, England and Bangladesh — were underpinned by all-round excellence and came on fair surfaces, not the dustbowls on which India typically thrive. The series against Australia marks the end of India’s 13-Test home season and Kohli wants his team to maintain the level they have been playing at. "It’s a big series for us," Kohli said earlier in February. "T...
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