India captain Kohli maintained that it was too early for the ODI team to be thinking about the next World Cup to be held in 2023.
"2023 is too far ahead to be honest," said the 30-year-old during the post-match press conference after the third T20I. "You start looking forward to the World Cup and planning for it 12 months prior. Not four years away. I think the priority is to keep Indian cricket at the top. Play consistent cricket, go out there and win games."
"For us, the priority has always been to be one of the most consistent sides in the world and in the last three to four years, I think we've been able to achieve that," he pointed out. "We're the no.2 side in the world and there's a good reason to that. We've been at no.1 as well sometime. It's the kind of cricket that we've played that has gotten us up here."
"We wanted to try a couple of guys and we thought of giving the Chahar brothers a go in this game. With the new ball, he (Deepak Chahar) was outstanding. There was some cloud cover but the kind of swing he got early on and the three wickets really set West Indies back. I was definitely impressed with how Deepak bowled and also how Rahul came back in his third over to take a wicket."
"For the first two games, he was really disappointed he didn't get any runs. He was playing really well, hitting the ball well," stated Kohli.
"That's how T20 cricket goes. Sometimes you don't have the rub of the green. Today he made sure he applied himself and backed his skills. Backed himself for the big shots when required and really played with the tempo of the innings. Especially finishing the match, that was the message from the batting coach for him. Finish the match, score the winning runs. That always gives you extra confidence as a player when you finish games and return not out."
"He's (Dhawan) a very experienced player. T20 cricket, we don't really look too much guys are doing in terms of form and stuff like that. It's a format where you need to get on with the game and you will get out at some stage. 50-over cricket gives you a lot more time to get into your innings and I think once he gets some time out there in the middle, we all know the skill sets that he has and the way he can bat. So not concerned at all."
"We expect the weather to be like this everywhere in the West Indies. It can be raining one moment and then suddenly be very sunny. I think the ground staff did an amazing job to get the game ready and the drainage was also really good. It didn't feel like we had rain in the morning."
"We didn't have any practice session yesterday and conditions were a bit hot today as well," he observed. "So a lot of the guys are going to take an off tomorrow.
"From that point of view, I think it was important to get a hit out in the middle and get some runs. Guys who bowled and fielded, it's very important to take rest and recover for day after because it's going to be a longer game. If conditions are going to be like this, it's going to be challenging with this much humidity."
