Rahane says Kohli and Shastri toughened up Indian cricket overseas
Rahane credited Kohli and Shastri for making India more aggressive overseas after Dhoni stepped away. He said Test cricket needs seven or eight senior players in the playing XI.
Ajinkya Rahane credits Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri with the shift in India's overseas approach once MS Dhoni left Test cricket. The team stopped playing safe and started taking the game to opponents.
Rahane remembers Kohli pushing him to stay aggressive, and the two kept talking openly about how to build partnerships. Those conversations mattered during the years India won abroad.
He's worried about the home results since then. Test sides need seven or eight senior players, he says, and this one lost too many at once when Kohli, Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin stepped away.
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