Adelaide: When asked about Dhoni’s fitness timeline and indeed if medium-pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be available for the Test as well, Virat Kohli said, “We are expecting Dhoni to be hundred per cent fit in the next few days. We want him to be fully fit before he plays a game. “Secondly the kind of preparation he wants in Australia, it would have been too short a span for him to go into a Test with too little or no preparation. So it is a mixture of factors really but we are expecting him to be completely fit in the next few days. “Bhuvi is recovering from a left ankle sprain and we are expecting him to be available for selection tomorrow. That’s a call we will take after training today after seeing how he is feeling,” he added.
During India’s last Test series in England, Kohli had found out about failure perhaps for the first time in his career as he could only score a meagre 134 runs in five Tests, averaging a paltry 13.40 as they lost 1—3.
Talking about that series, Kohli said: “In England I made the mistake of giving too much importance to things that are not in my control. “But I don’t live in the past and I don’t think anyone does. I don’t want to remember what went on in those sessions or Tests. It is all about looking forward to tomorrow.”
