Jason Holder said that West Indies are at their best when they play against top oppositions and playing against Kohli and Ashwin is a challenge he is looking forward to.
Vivian Richards and Virat Kohli spoke about the effortlessness of the West Indian and why he never tried helmets while batting.
Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul are the only two openers India have selected in their squad for the two-match Test series against West Indies.
India will be playing their first Test in more than seven months. India's last series was a memorable one as they beat Australia for their maiden Test series win Down Under.
If there is pace and bounce, Kohli is likely to go with four specialist bowlers in which Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav will be fighting for the lone spinner's slot.
KL Rahul, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, R Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah were excited to have their names present on the Test jersey.
Virat Kohli will have the chance of equalling Ricky Ponting's record of centuries as a captain in Test cricket when India take on the West Indies in the first Test in Antigua.
Virat Kohli shared a photo of the team members, where they can be seen chilling and having a good time ahead of their Test series opener against West Indies in Antigua.
The first Test against West Indies marks the two teams' entry into the ICC World Test Championship. It will be played in North Sound, Antigua and starts on August 22.
India will be returning to the Test cricket after a good 7 and half months and the moot point of the playing XI will be whether Kohli-Shastri duo goes for an additional sixth batsman or an extra bowler for the first Test.
The World Test Championship will end with the top two teams playing the final, scheduled to be held in June 2021 in the United Kingdom.
Lara and Ramnaresh Sarwan have been invited by Cricket West Indies to conduct a session with the Test squad before the start of the two-match series.
Umesh hasn't got as much of an opportunity to play as he would have hoped for because of the consistency found by Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Rahane, who has not scored a hundred in more than two years, made a fighting 54 off 162 balls before a reverse sweep led to his dismissal.
Navdeep Saini has earlier been the Indian team's net bowler and a cover for Bhuvneshwar Kumar during the ICC World Cup in England as well.
Cornwall first played first-class cricket in 2014 and has 260 wickets from 55 first-class matches along with 2224 runs. He recently scored two half-centuries in two unofficial 'Tests' against India.
Cheteshwar Pujara, R Ashwin and Ajinkya Rahane will be back for India while Jasprit Bumrah will also be joining the squad as the World Championship begins with the two-Test series against West Indies.
Shreyas Iyer scored back to back fifties in the ODIs versus West Indies as India won the three-match ODI series 2-0.
Virat Kohli now has scored 20502 runs in international cricket across all the formats and 20,343 runs have come in the last 10 years.
Shreyas Iyer struck his second fifty of the series and played a counter-attacking inning of 65 from 41 balls as India beat West Indies by 6 wickets.
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