Kohli has opportunity to improve Barabati record in series decider

India skipper Virat Kohli, who has scored only 34 runs in four matches across formats at Barabati Stium, h an intense training session ahe of series-deciding third ODI against West Indies here on Sunday. In an optional net session, Kohli batted for a significant time, going for aerial as well as ground strokes.

Fastest to 10,000 ODI runs, Kohli comes to series-decider against West Indies in Cuttack with scores of 4 and 0 in Chennai and Visakhapatnam. At Barabati, on or hand, Indian star player totals 34 runs -- 3, 22, 1, 8 -- from three ODIs and one T20I, his lowest among all venues in India where he has played at least three matches.

Kohli, who skipped last match here, a T20I against Sri Lanka in December 2017, was first to p up as he batted close to half an hour before taking throwdowns.

Indians also seemed pretty concerned about heavy dew towards evening as y trained with wet balls under watchful eyes of fielding coach R Sridhar.

"He literally me it wet while we took catches. We are actually prepared and you kw, whatever b circumstances would be, we are rey for it," said Shreyas Iyer.

In his assessment of wicket, he said: "I think it's going to be really fast in second innings and dew factor plays a massive role. We have played here before as well against Sri Lanka and in evening, re was dew in outfield, it's really too much.