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Dubai: Describing Virat Kohli as a "big player", Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed felt his absence from the Indian team at Asia Cup 2018 will not make much difference when the arch rivals clash in Dubai on September 20. He said India had good players to fill the void left by Kohli. Also, Sarfraz said Champions Trophy final result is history now and it won't have any bearing on the upcoming clash in UAE.

'Virat Kohli's absence won't be a factor, they are a better side,' Sourav Ganguly said, adding Pakistan too have improved on their performance

Dubai: India are set to open their Asia Cup 2018 campaign against Hong Kong in Dubai on Tuesday and stand-in captain Rohit Sharma is "nervous" as well as "excited" to take up the responsibility of the leader in Virat Kohli's absence. Rohit said he and his team-mates were not worried about the heat factor in UAE and were focused on doing well in all matches.

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma once again faced netizens’ anger for ignoring a teenage boy who wanted to gift them a collage of their photos at the Mumbai airport.

The focal point would be how India play a quality Pakistan who have a world-class fast bowler in Mohammed Aamir, a solid all-rounder in Hasan Ali, a prolific opener in Fakhar Zaman and talented batsmen such as Babar Azam and Harris Sohail

Virat Kohli has been very experimental with his hairstyles and continues to look stunning as always.

'Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn’t possible. I believe that I left the captaincy at the right time,' said Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The 'Little Master', however, played down Kohli's much-publicised reaction to a reporter's query about whether he agreed with coach Ravi Shastri on this being the best travelling team in last 15 years.

'The UAE is Pakistan’s second home ground and they understand UAE’s wicket very well in comparison to the other teams,' Akhtar said

London: England won the fifth and final Test against India to claim the Pataudi Trophy 4-1. India captain Virat Kohli praised KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant for scoring centuries on the final day and not surrendering without a fight. There was a moment during the post-match press conference when Kohli snapped at an Indian journalist for asking whether the current side was the best among the country’s teams in the past 15 years, a view put forward by coach Ravi Shastri, recently.

At The Oval, a reporter asked, 'Virat, you guys were competitive throughout the series but the fact that these kind of tags like 'best Indian side in the last 15 years', do these things put extra pressure on you or do you actually believe you are?'