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“We’ll go one step at a time”

Virat Kohli opens up on india’s world cup campaign and his own journey so far in conversation with Boria Majumdar.

It was the first match of the 2011 World Cup in Dhaka and all of India was talking about revenge. Bangladesh had beaten India in the first game of the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean and what happened thereafter constitutes one of the most painful chapters in the history of Indian cricket.

The defeat had to be avenged and sanity restored. Virender Sehwag set the tone with a first-ball boundary and made sure that this time around, there were no hiccups.

His explosive 170 and a mature 101 from young Virat Kohli helped India secure a comfortable victory. While Sehwag, Tendulkar, Dhoni and Yuvraj were all relaxed with mission revenge accomplished, Kohli

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