This is one of our sweetest wins in the recent past: Virat Kohli

On Tuesday, Team India defeated England by 66 runs in one of their finest comebacks in ODI cricket. Thus getting a lead of 1-0 in the three-match ODI series. India captain surpassed two of the batting icons, Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting to become the fastest to reach 10,000 runs in international cricket at home. It took the 32-year-old 195 innings on home soil to set his record up top.

Speaking at the post-match presentation, Kohli expressed his delight at winning the match and emerging victorious after wrecking the tourists’ batting line-up, who were in a dominant position in the first phase of the second innings.

“This is one of our sweetest wins in the recent past. This one is right up there with any other. Getting nine wickets so quickly is outstanding. To come back into the game the way they did is brilliant. I'm a really, really proud man right now. Team showed great character and intensity. As I mentioned in the past as well, we promote players who have intent,” Kohli said during the post-match presentation.

High praise for Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul

“Special mention to Shikhar's innings as well. KL as well, back among the runs. Want to back the people who we know will go out and do a selfless job. For every spot, we have two-three players available. Great signs for Indian cricket. Right now we are on the right path and have a big pool of players to choose from. Shikhar's body language was amazing when he wasn't playing. He was so helpful for us,” he said.

Shikhar Dhawan missed out on a well-deserved century, where he was so close but yet so far, and probably the most important knock, which set the tone for other batsmen to play promising innings that led India to put up 300-odd runs on the board.

“Today he (Shikhar Dhawan) deserved the result. He batted in the most toughest phase today and got 95 which is more valuable than what the scoreboard shows. The ploy was that when we got to 100-partnership, between overs 31 and 40, I told Shikhar I'll take the bowling on. Few wickets pushed us back a little bit. It's a fair assessment (that we were below par). Under lights as well, the ball was coming on nicely,” the 32-year-old concluded.