*ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated on Tuesday the Indiancricket skipper Virat Kohli and his team after his side’s historic Testseries win against Australia, Down Under.*
“Congratulations to Virat Kohli and the Indian cricket team for the firstever win by a subcontinent team in a test series in Australia,” said PMKhan, in a tweet.
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Team India became the first side from Asia to beat Aussies at their ownbackyard, after team India clinched the Border-Gavaskar trophy 2-1.
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Speaking to the media on Monday after the win, Kohli said he hoped that theseries win would act as something of a counterbalance to popularity of theshorter, more explosive brands of cricket that have increasingly dominatedthe Indian game.
“I see this series as a stepping stone for this team to inspire the nextlot of test cricketers,” he told reporters.
“To be passionate for test cricket firstly. When Indian cricket respectstest cricket we know the fans are going to come in and watch test cricket…We definitely want to build on this and always promote the message of testcricket being the most important and the most valued format of the game,which it rightfully is,” he said.
