After the red dust settled in the middle and the handshakes, however tightly gripped, went around, the India captain, Virat Kohli, led his team on a lap of honour around the Wankhede Stadium to celebrate what he later described as the sweetest of his five successive series victories in charge.
This satisfaction, Kohli said, came both from the quality of the opposition and the manner in which his side have taken an unassailable 3-0 lead going into the fifth Test in Chennai starting on Friday, coming as it has with three tosses going against him in four Tests. They are the world’s No1 side for a reason and having now equalled India’s longest unbeaten run of 17 Tests, chalked up between September 1985 and March 1987, the captain believes the pieces are coming together for a decade of dominance.
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