The upcoming Test series between India and England will be about Virat Kohli erasing the memories of a disastrous tour of England in 2014. However, South Africa pacer Dale Steyn feels that it will have to be a fresh start and Anderson will have to look at new ways to dismissing the run-machine as Kohli would have definitely worked on his game to combat the weakness that the English pacer worked on during the 2014 tour.
“He has his weaknesses as well as his strengths. You try and feed on those weaknesses for as long as possible and hope he makes a mistake. You need to look at, say, Kohli’s last ten dismissals and try and find if there is a pattern there. Maybe he was caught at mid-wicket last eight out of ten times. And when he walks in, I put a mid-wicket in there and I would say, “Ya, you know, I see you’ve been caught here eight times’ and you play into his mindset. So those are the little tricks of the trade that a lot of teams would do.
“I am not a batting coach, but I can guarantee you that Anderson will continue to try and feed off those performances that he’s had and he will continue those gameplans and will remind Kohli how he’s gotten him out when he comes in and hopefully have a similar kind of field. But again, Kohli may have figured a way to combat that and Anderson will have to find a new way of getting him out and that’s the great thing about Test cricket,” Steyn told Firstpost.
“We’ve got five Test matches and you might see a new trend develop. He (Anderson) might get him caught in a completely different way, a new gameplan. That’s the exciting thing. I don’t know what his gameplans would be and I don’t know what Kohli’s mindset is, going into this but if I know him the way I know him, he will be very determined to score runs and If I know Anderson the way I know him, he will be very determined to take wickets. So it’s going to be a great contest.”
The first test between two sides to be played at Edgbaston From August 1.
