“This thing comes up again and again when he is not able to play the way he does. And it is very unfortunate that people jump to conclusions very quickly. When he does well, people call him the best finisher ever and when things don’t go well, people just pounce on him. I mean we all have bad days in cricket. Today, I think was a bad day for everyone not just for him alone. Just as a batting unit we could not click and the idea was to take the innings deep,” said Kohli after the match.

“You don’t want to lose by 160-170 runs. You want to take it as deep as you can and he (Dhoni) has the experience (to get us through). But some days it just doesn’t come off. People just jump to conclusions, which we as a team do not and we totally believe in him and the abilities of all the other players.” 

“We started off pretty well  with the bat. It was a very good wicket to play on throughout the course of both the innings. It got slower in the latter half but I think when we lost three wickets in around three overs, it was something that really hurt us chasing 320 plus. You need wickets in hand. Not every time will you get across the line after losing three or four wickets up front. I thought that’s where we fell behind and we could never recover. And as I said the wicket got slower but credit to the (English) bowlers, they stuck to their guns and bowled really good lines and lengths.”