"This time, captaincy is a full time thing. Getting together the team composition is pretty exciting to be honest. It's not something I take as a pressure thing, but it's something that I enjoy and I'm honoured to captain players who have been playing for over 20 years," he said. The youngster said giving 100% on the field was something he had picked up from Kumble, interestingly Mumbai Indians' chief mentor for the current season.
"One thing he believed was in giving it all on the field. And that's something I believe in as well. He always had great faith in players and kept pushing players to perform really well. If he saw the players were down, he would pull the team load all by himself. That was something that was striking about his captaincy and that's something I will like to inculcate in our team as well," he said.
RCB's decision to pick up a number of pacers in the last auction has not gone unnoticed and Kohli justified the decision saying the Bangalore track had always supported bowlers in the first six overs. "It has not been a flat wicket; we all know that. The ball does seam around. Two years back we had lots of bowling options but last year we didn't because not everyone was fit and it didn't work out well for us. So this year I insisted that we have lots of bowling options," he said.
Earlier, MI skipper Ricky Ponting said that finding a replacement for the injured Lasith Malinga was not the top of his priorities thanks to the wealth of talent at his disposal. "We haven't decided on our final playing eleven yet. We've got to look at what the weather conditions are going to be like tomorrow afternoon and what the pitch is going to be like," he said, referring to Tuesday night's thunderstorm and the prospect of rain again on the morrow.
Courtesy: The Times Of India
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