How Anil Kumble and Virat Kohli transformed Indian fast bowling

#3 Looking for wickets in all conditions

In India's last overseas leg in 2013/14, India failed in bowling out oppositions and squandered match-winning opportunities. Once the batsmen got going, India would start saving runs. This resulted in batsmen scoring aplenty, and the games would slip away from Day 1 itself.

India would prefer to play the waiting game and allow the opposition captain to make a declaration. India would already have their backs to the wall due to mounting scoreboard pressure.

Kumble and Kohli advocated the fact about getting 20 wickets in a test match every single time. When India started their overseas tours, it was evident that they were looking for wickets all the time. When AB De Villiers was running riot in Cape Town or Jos Buttler, and Ben Stokes had a 150-run partnership in Trent Bridge, India did not lose patience and tried picking wickets.

Due to this change in mindset, one resulted in two, and two resulted in a batting collapse. If we look at India's four wins in 2018 or the ones where they competed so well, it was all due to the relentless bowling which resulted in batting collapses.

If we look at the wickets taken by the quicks this year outside the sub-continent, they have outbowled every other nation with 151 wickets shared between the six quicks in 14 test matches in 2018.