We as players feed off the crowd's energy: Virat Kohli

On Tuesday, despite a 14-run loss against Australia, India completed their fifth consecutive T20I series win. This was Team India's first loss in the shortest form of the game since December 2019, and their 11-match unbeaten streak was over.

Speaking at the post-match presentation, Indian skipper Virat Kohli talked about how his team made their comeback after losing to Australia in the ODI series and wrapping up the T20I series with a win to end 2020. "At one stage when Hardik started going we thought we could pull it off. The middle over phase during our batting cost us the game. A partnership of 30-odd would've made it easier for Hardik."

On playing in front of crowd 

"We are finding ways to come back and give the opposition a scare and the series win is a little asterisk for us to finish the 2020 season on a high. I feel the crowd was a factor as well, it's always giving you a dimension of motivation. Our crowd pulls us through sometimes, and Australia's too, and we as players feed off the crowd's energy," he said.

The captain intends to play the tour match ahead of the Tests

"We need to take the same competitive attitude into the Tests, and having played here a few times, we can score runs as well. Once it's time to capitalize and score, we need to do that session by session. I'm sure the current side is stronger than last time (Test matches) and I'll see if I can play the tour match," Kohli concluded.

Hardik Pandya was adjudged the man of the series for his brilliant batting performance but, he decided to hand the award trophy to T Nagarajan. The Tamil Nadu pacer bagged 6 wickets in his first-ever T20I series. 

"I'm very pleased, and wouldn't mind getting the Man of the Series award, but it was a team effort. After the 2nd ODI we thought we'd think of this this a 4-match series and we managed to get three wins, so happy with that. I don't mind giving interviews because you only have those when you're on the winning side. I haven't seen my child for four months, so I'd like to spend some time with family right now," Pandya told during the post-match presentation.