{"id":224915,"date":"2021-11-02T04:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=224915"},"modified":"2021-11-02T04:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:20:55","slug":"kohli-admits-they-were-not-brave-enough-as-wc-exit-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/kohli-admits-they-were-not-brave-enough-as-wc-exit-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohli admits they were not \u2018brave enough\u2019 as WC exit looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Abu Dhabi<br \/>\nIndian cricket captain Virat Kohli on Sunday evening after getting defeated by New Zealand at World T20I contest said that his men \u2018were not brave enough to win\u2019.<br \/>\nAfter being thrashed out by Pakistan by ten wickets in their World T20I opener, India were stunned again on Sunday as New Zealand defeated them by comprehensive margin of eight wickets.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t think we were brave enough with bat or ball,\u201d said Kohli whose team will face Afghanistan, Scotland and Namibia in their remaining games.<br \/>\nOnly the top two make the semi-finals.<br \/>\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t have much to defend but we weren\u2019t brave when we walked out to field. When you play for the Indian cricket team you have a lot of expectations \u2014 not just from fans, but players as well,\u201d he added.<br \/>\n\u201cSo there\u2019s always going to be more pressure with our games and we\u2019ve embraced it over the years.\u201d<br \/>\nWilliamson hailed his team as they collected their first win.<br \/>\n\u201cA fantastic all-round performance from us against a formidable India side,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe were able to build pressure throughout and the way the openers came out really set the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli on Sunday evening after getting defeated by New Zealand at World T20I contest said that his men \u2018were not brave enough to win\u2019. After being thrashed out by Pakistan by ten wickets in their World T20I opener, India were stunned again on Sunday as New Zealand defeated them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kohli admits they were not \u2018brave enough\u2019 as WC exit looms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/kohli-admits-they-were-not-brave-enough-as-wc-exit-looms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kohli admits they were not \u2018brave enough\u2019 as WC exit looms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abu Dhabi Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli on Sunday evening after getting defeated by New Zealand at World T20I contest said that his men \u2018were not brave enough to win\u2019. 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