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Virat Kohli blames DRS after losing 4th ODI to Australia

Virat Kohli blames DRS after losing 4th ODI to Australia

Virat Kohli

Australia beat India by four wickets in fourth One-Day International (ODI) at Mohali city's Punjab Cricket Association Stadium to level the five-match series.

Ashton Turnerhelped Australia chase down a record 359with an unbeaten 84 off 43 balls while Indian captain Virat Kohli seemed unhappyafterthematch.

Kohli blamed the Decision Review System (DRS)saying "it is not consistent at all and becoming a talking point in every game".

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Turner survived an early scarein his innings when DRS result saved him but the decision surprisedKohli as he had a long chat with the on-field umpires.

During the post-match presentation, Kohli said, "The DRS call was a surprise, it's just not consistent at all, it's becoming a talking point in every game."

Also,Rishabh Pant, who replaced rested Mahendra Singh Dhonimissed a chance to stump Turner on 38 and the innings and overallIndia were poor in the field.

"We were sloppy in the field and should've grabbed our chances," said the India skipper.

The dew also played a big role in Australia's innings.

"The wicket remained good throughout, we've fallen on the wrong side of the dew in two games, but that's not an excuse. Ashton played a hell of a knock, Peter Handscomb played a brilliant innings, Usman Khawaja held the innings together.

"They played better cricket, we got to accept and it's a record chase, they deserved to win. If we had won the toss, we would've batted first (in Ranchi). We had to get the fifth bowler out of the way tonight. If Kedar Jadhav and Vijay Shankar was bowling with the dew, it would've been more difficult, so we wanted to get done with it first," said Kohli.