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We wanted to chase them down: Kohli

Cricket's latest run machine Virat Kohli once again showed why he is the best as the India vice-captain slammed a brilliant unbeaten 154 to guide India to a seven wicket win over New Zealand.

Kohli who was handed a life by Ross Taylor while batting on 1, went on to notch a match-winning century as India took a 2-1 lead at Mohali.

"Bit of luck went my way, I feel sorry for Ross, it's never easy to drop a catch and the batsman carries through. I've done that, and Brendon got 300 in Wellington," an elated Kohli who won the man-of-the-match award said.

India had New Zealand on the mat with the visitors struggling at 180 for the loss of seven wickets. But the Indian bowlers let the pressure off as New Zealand set India stiff target of 285 runs.

"We may have given a bit too much to New Zealand, but we took it as an opportunity to chase them down, because we know we are a good chasing team," Kohli said.

Kohli had the company of his skipper MS Dhoni in the middle as the duo stitched a brilliant 151-run partnership to steer India.

Speaking on batting alongside with Dhoni, Kohli said, "Good to have MS up the order. Shows the confidence he has, he was run-out in the last game, but he came here and did his job. Some of the boundaries he hit early on helped me relax."

"We fed off each other, I fed off MS as well. And it wasn't the easiest pitch. Some balls were stopping on us," he added.

Kohli has been the lynchpin of the Indian batting line-up and his wicket turned out to be the key in the second ODI as India lost at Kotla by six runs.

Speaking on his own batting, Kohli said, "In the past I have tried to play out of my skin, getting overexcited, but I've realised if I can time the ball, and hit the gaps and run hard, I can still get runs. If a bowler can hit the right areas a be good, a batsman can be good playing proper shots."

"Me and MS had a chat, he took on the spinner, even mistimed hits go over the crowd. I know teams want to get me out immediately, so I take my time, go with the flow and then attack at the end. For that you need to play percentage cricket and I know I can play good cricketing shots and still get runs," he signed off.



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