But probably the more memorable day was Friday, the day the Indian batsmen transformed themselves into a bunch of warriors hungry for triumph after a couple of failures. It didn’t matter to Kohli that the match was a dead rubber, with India already having lost the series. It didn’t matter to Ajinkya Rahane that Rohit Sharma was preferred over him in the previous two Tests. It didn’t matter to the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami that they had to bowl with the same fingers that they risked being hit on. For that period of almost six-and-a-half hours on Friday, the Indian batsmen had just one mission: fight hard, bat long.

Source: dna January 29, 2018 02:37 UTC