4 areas where Virat Kohli needs to improve

#3 Instilling confidence in the players and the mainstays

Rahane and Pujara need to be backed to perform

"It would have been better if they had said at the start of the tour, ‘guys, we will go with the same team for the first three Tests. Do your best.’ That gives a different kind of confidence. Kohli is a good man and wants the best for the team and doesn’t mean to create it but the changes make you doubt yourself. It’s our mistake to feel like that probably but we are humans," a player said to Indian Express in the recent past.

“You start to second guess. Kyun aisey kar rahe hain?(Why are you this?) You then start feeling you are on your own here,” said another player.

These words from the members of the Indian team unquestionably depict the policy of Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri. The policy could have been apt for any format but Tests. In the longest format of the game, it is the confidence that does the trick for a player especially a batsman.

To deduce, a sense of instilled confidence can do the trick for Virat Kohli. More importantly, Kohli needs to create a sense of confidence among the Indian mainstays (Rahane and Pujara) as well.