Ahmedabad: India captain Virat Kohli has ruled out any mental scars for his side on the eve of the pink-ball Test match against England at Ahmedabad.
The last time India played a pink-ball match, the team were shot out for their lowest ever Test score of 36, in December 2020 against Australia. England too won't recall their last pink-ball match fondly as they were bowled out for 58 in New Zealand.
When Kohli was quipped if there is any mental scars for both India and England playing a pink ball Test, he said, "No, according to me, both are bizarre experiences for two quality sides. If you ask England the same question, do you think that you know, you could be bowled out of 50 again? Their answer probably would be no, because you understand that on that particular day, things just aren't meant to happen to certain way. Whatever you tried to do, it's out of your control and nothing seems to go right. And exactly what happened to us in Adelaide as well."
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Kohli, however, stressed that "Barring that forty-five minutes of bad cricket, we dominated that Test match as well. So we're very confident in terms of how we play the pink ball, even in Australia with the pitches were assisting their seamers, they were under the pump through that Adelaide game. And that forty-five minutes where we were just blown away. There was, there was literally nothing to do come back into the game with."