Kohli talks of reserve day

Rain ruined most of the play in the one-off Test between Bangladesh and India to enforce a draw at Fatullah yesterday. The frustrating outcome compelled visiting skipper Virat Kohli to entertain the idea of keeping a reserve day for Test matches.

"That's a debatable question. Say, on the fourth day a team is struggling to save the game, the next day it rains for two sessions and the game is drawn. The team that deserves to win doesn't get a win. So yes, there might be a thought there. It's a good suggestion actually. You might want to add another day seeing the situation of the game. If there is a possible result, there is no harm in giving the team that's winning a fair chance to compete for three sessions. You earn a draw or the deserving team gets a victory. Might not be a bad thing, but I'm not sure how the discussions are going to be going," said Kohli in response to a question for a reserve day in Test matches during the post-match briefing.

Kohli, who made it clear that winning will be main mantra during his tenure, began his career as a full-time Test captain with a draw but he had little to do in the match as rain started playing foul from the very first day and that's why he was not bothered with his side's demotion to number four in the rankings.

"Rankings really don't matter as far as I'm concerned, not at this stage. We know that we want to go to the top. This game, we literally had two days of proper cricket and we can't judge ourselves on that. We can judge ourselves on how we played in whatever time we had available and that was pretty good as far as I'm concerned and the team is concerned," said a confident Kohli.

The India skipper had also no complaint about the scheduling of the series as rain was predicated in June-July in this country.

"See, you can't control the weather. You can't schedule games according to the thought that it might rain or it might not rain," opined Kohli.

Praising Bangladesh, Kohli said: "It's always going to be challenging to play against them, no matter what the format is."

He also looked forward to a bigger challenge from the Tigers in the three-match ODI series which will start on June 18 at Mirpur.

"In the one-day format they are obviously a very dangerous side. They've beaten Pakistan as well in the last series. There is no question about them being very competitive in one-day cricket. They have the ability to upset any team in the world and we all know that. We give them equal respect as any other opposition when we play them," said Kohli.