How Kohli-Dhoni planned winning onslaught against
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How Kohli-Dhoni planned winning onslaught against
Virat Kohli, who mastered India's successful runchaseagainst Australia to take his team through to semi-finalsat Mohali on Sunday, has admitted that he has "never playedan innings" in a situation where 39 were needed in last threeovers. Kohli said that he had decided to target James Faulkner in the 18thover."The thoughts, the pre-planning for the boundary just kept coming to mein my mind. I knew a hundred percent that I had to target James Faulknerin the 18th over. I thought 3 overs and 39 runs, and one over has to be abig one at least close to 15 runs. We got bigger (19) than that. I think justbefore the 16th over, I thought if we don't get too many boundaries, wemight be struggling in the end because the pitch was not as flat."Kohli said that the slower balls were holding up."The slower balls were holding up. It was very important to stay in the moment and pick your gaps. It was a quick outfield, so Iknew if I could beat the fielder inside the ring, I would probably end up getting four runs.
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