India vs Australia: Attack to survive is the mantra for India

Rahul Dravid and zoomed out of the premises even as rest of the Indian team just got into an intense session of nets.What Kohli did while he was at the nets highlighted the template for batters in spin-friendly conditions. The practice pitches were visibly bare, dry and looked as crumbly as a cookie. Virat walked up to the good length area and vigorously scratched the surface across its breadth. As left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar and off-spinners Pulkit Narang and Hrithik Shokeen plugged away at the spot, Kohli kept charging down the track, clearly looking to attack. Off the pacers, the front-foot press was evident even while putting away the short ones. The objective of the entire session was to sharpen his run-scoring ability.

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India's batting-mainstay Virat Kohli on Wednesday spent extra time with spinners at the nets during a practice session at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi ahead of the second Test against Australia.

Touring teams crumbling in a hurry usually exaggerates the amount of help Indian spinners derive from these surfaces. It actually boils down to how batters devise a strategy to actually put runs on the board. Indian batters, of late, had struggled to put big scores on home pitches. The current team is close to actually cracking that code having posted 400 batting second in the first Test in Nagpur last week. Two days before the second Test against Australia, Dravid, an absolute master of batting in Indian conditions in his playing days, laid out the mindset of his team management which revolves around the importance of counter-attacking.

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