India has now gained a mammoth lead in the ICC World Test Championship table after their fourth consecutive innings victory–a record in itself–in the second Test against Bangladesh at Kolkata on Sunday. India now has 360 points to their name with the next best being Australia at 180 points followed by New Zealand, Sri Lanka and England with 120 points each. Clearly, the Asian giants have established themselves as the favourites to play in the finals in 2021.
However, Kohli thinks that teams shouldn’t be judged based on these few performances at home so far.
“We saw the Ashes, the level of intensity in which that series was played. So it is very difficult to judge a team,” said Kohli.
Instead, he suggested a home-away format to bring more balance into this Championship, “A more balanced format would be one series home, one away. We are playing very good cricket but we have played only two Tests away.”
He also refused to believe that India is dominating all teams at the moment because of the huge lead they have gained.
“You can praise our team on our performance but to say that we are dominating like no other team is a very subjective thing to think of. We have played three series so far, maybe if four series were two home, two away and we had 300 points than you could have said ‘yes we are playing well.’ We are playing good cricket but I don’t think there should be any tags attached to any team. One home, one away would keep that balance,” added Kohli.
“You can’t judge a team’s dominance in seven games. The West Indies team did it for 15 years. Seven years, yes, but not seven games,” the 31-year-old went on to say further.