WTC final: It is more Ravi Shastri’s team than Virat Kohli’s, says Monty Panesar on Team India

Former England spinner Monty Panesar believes that the ICC will produce a neutral pitch, not a green top, for the WTC final so that the match will not end within three days.

Former England spinner Monty Panesar, feels the success of the current Indian team is a reflection of head coach Ravi Shastri’s ‘fearless brand of cricket’, rather than skipper Virat Kohli’s ‘on your face kind of cricket.’ “If one analyses the performance of India in the past few months, you can see that it is more of Ravi Shastri’s team than Virat Kohli’s. At least that’s what I feel,” Monty Panesar told IndiaToday.in over the phone from the UK. “It is Ravi Shastri who has built a self-belief in this Indian cricket team. What they achieved in Australia after the infamous ‘36’ in Adelaide is quite a miracle. They won the series even though their charismatic captain Virat Kohli didn’t play the rest of the series, and India kept losing players to injury.