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Virat Kohli has rated Indias players eliminating their hunger for personal milestones in favour of the teams cause as a major highlight of his tenure as Test captain.India sealed the series against England 3-0 in Mumbai with one match still left, and despite what the scoreline suggests they have had to work very hard. They lost three tosses out of four, they have made comebacks with the bat and their bowlers had to be highly disciplined to take wickets on good pitches. Kohli felt getting the better of such difficult situations required a bit of selflessness.One thing that I really wanted the team to do was express themselves in Test matches and not think about personal performances, he said, when asked what uncertainties he had when taking over the captaincy and when he thought he had nailed them. Because a lot of the times, you have an hour in the Test match where you can take the game away and you are still not willing to go for it because you are close to your milestone or things like that. These are the things that we have gotten out of our system completely.We just look at the situation and play and thats why we have been in winning positions more often than not. Even with the teams that we have played, we have made quite a few changes and the guys have bought into it. So as a captain that gives you total freedom to play the XI according to the conditions that you are going to play in, and the ultimate aim has been to win games and win series.The other demand Kohli made of his men was to not be satisfied with winning one Test in a series and sitting on the lead. Thats why we have won five [series] in a row, he said. And as I said, its been an outstanding effort by the guys so far. Long it may continue because we are going to play for another eight-10 years, and this mindset needs to continue for us to be a top-quality consistent side.Considering the effort India had to put in - across three back-to-back Tests - on fair pitches, Kohli believed the 3-0 over England was the teams best result in recent times.Out of the five that weve won, this is the best by far, he said. Because of the quality of the opposition, and the kind of cricket that weve played as well. Were very proud of that, and for me as a captain, this is definitely on top.I think the pitches have been far more true than the New Zealand series. That is something that I observed immediately. All wickets have been good cricket wickets and we have had to play good cricket to win these three Tests, and none of the matches have been surrendered by the opposition. We have had to work hard for it, and the bowlers have had to work harder in this series, I feel, to get batsmen out and to control the flow of runs as well. We have used more in-out fields in this series than we did in the New Zealand series so its pretty evident that the wickets have been better.Kohli was pleased with how India maintained constant pressure because England, he said, were not going to break down on their own. We have been put under pressure many times, he said. I think I would give my team a lot of credit for bouncing back from those tough situations. We havent got anything on the platter. We have had to work hard for it. And its been a result of constant pressure that we have forced the opposition to make mistakes.With the bat as well we have shown really good character to come back into the game, showing enough patience, more than the opposition, so I would credit my team more than calling it an easy series. No series win is easy, especially not this one. We know England is a quality Test side, and we knew that they would try to bounce back. Even in this game after being 2-0 down, they put 400 runs in the first innings. This is not a team that will throw in the towel. They will fight, and we saw another example of it. We were tested but we came out on top.One of the key factors in the resilience India have shown with the bat has been Kohli himself. He has made 640 runs in four Tests, scoring a double-century on a square turner in Mumbai, a big ton from 22 for 2 in Visakhapatnam, and a scarcely believable 81 in the second innings when he kept hitting shooters for fours.Still Kohli cherishes his hundred in the second innings in Adelaide more. Chasing 364, he took India within striking distance of a win, but a collapse in the end left him heartbroken.I am still personally very attached to the one in Adelaide in the second innings because that was the beginning of this transition, Kohli said. This has been an on-going process, so I have only gained from the energy around in the change-room and from the team-mates as well. But this probably can be second-best, in my heart I still rate the one in Adelaide in the second innings higher than the ones I have scored elsewhere.This innings was really satisfying. It was a test of patience. Knowing we are 2-0 up, we cant be taking anything for granted going into the last Test. You dont want to leave one Test with the opposition still having a chance to level the series. So from that sense, it was very important to wrap it up here.Vijay was going great guns, I was enjoying batting with him but then that collapse happened in the middle. So all sort of things come into your head, whether youre going to be able to reach 400 or if you want to get close to the target. The lead was never in mind at that stage, we just wanted to get close to 400.Things shaped up nicely, and then we thought a 40-50 run lead will be great. But eventually, we got 231 of them. That for me was a revelation of me understanding that yes, you can bat for longer periods than what you might have thought initially. If youre focused on what the team needs, you dont realise, you dont feel the tiredness, you dont feel the fatigue. Its all about what the team wants, and in that process, you can go on for longer than what you think otherwise.An advantage for India in keeping a focus on those small targets was that it helped them not to get dragged into the revenge series that the marketing machinery kept building an England tour as.Thats all for TRPs [ratings], Kohli said. I feel all these little visuals that you see on Star [host broadcaster] and TV before the series, a lot of the campaigns are pretty exciting for people to watch actually. They like those sort of things, people talking about the series and saying this one will thrash this one.As cricketers, honestly, its far from what we think about. 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Brisbane Roar coach John Aloisi has called for the A-League to bring back retrospective punishment for acts of simulation.Throwing the issue into the spotlight ahead of Fridays clash with Melbourne City - whose midfielder Neil Kilkenny has been roundly criticised this week for diving - Aloisi said there had to be a strong stance taken by Football Federation Australia to eradicate it.Kilkenny was labelled pathetic by Fox Sports pundit Mark Rudan for falling to the ground in apparent agony after Adelaide Uniteds Isaias rubbed his hand in his face last week in an attempt to have the Spaniard sent off.Aloisi said he was sure referee Peter Green would be alert to any similar tactics at Suncorp Stadium.Im pretty sure if (Kilkenny) didnt get the message, the FFA, I know theyre not happy about any simulation, he said.I was in Europe for a long time, I know that in certain countries you actually practice it, players to go down a little bit easier.Thats not in the Australian culture, we dont want it in our game. The referees analyse games like we do, Im sure it will be stamped out very quickly.Aloisi said the best way to punish culprits would be after the fact, using video replays.Yoou get suspended for a bad tackle, for trying to hurt the opposition, and for me this is just as bad, he said.ddddddddddddTwo A-League players, Patricio Perez and Michael Baird, were retrospectively banned for diving back in 2010 but FFA hasnt taken similar action since.City coach John van t Schip said hed personally spoken to Kilkenny about his incident.We all know that its part of football but were not supporting those actions and Neil knows, he said.Look, there was clearly a hand in his face but maybe he over-reacted there.On the other hand, I dont think we need to make a big deal of it. Enough has been said about it.Meanwhile, Aloisi drew attention to pinning tactics used by City captain Bruno Fornaroli on opposition defenders, which he suspects might also be illegal.He likes to pin players around the box. What I mean by pinning, he actually holds you and I dont even know if thats allowed, but he does, and he uses his body well, he said.Weve worked on how we can defend against that and hopefully the players will be able to defend against it. ' ' '