Injury can get aggravated while fielding: Kohli

While he didn’t confirm that he is out of the fourth and final Test but maintained that the rule that the team has made for any unfit player is very much applicable to him.

"I wouldn’t say it is a normal feeling. It is obviously different from how you play at 100% fitness. Those are the things that you need to address when you are going through (fitness) tests. As a batsman, you want to prepare a certain way. As a fielder, you want to contribute a certain way. Certainly, at this stage, the injury has an element of being aggravated in the field," Kohli’s answer was a giveaway as to how he is feeling physically at this point in time.

Kohli said that he is trying to buy some time till evening to see if he can get back normal movements. "While batting, there is no problem whatsoever of it getting aggravated. So it’s a bit different obviously from when you are 100% fit. Again, you never know. I have taken medication after the last game, so I am just hoping that it takes me a bit more time to get back to the normal movements that I have. As I said, I have to give it a few more hours and take that call."

The current Indian team has an unwritten rule that any player who is not hundred percent should not take the field. "When we put these things in place, same process applies for me as it does for all the other members of the team. There is no special treatment for anyone. Obviously, if, I am hundred percent fit for the game, is the only condition that I will take the field. So, the (said) rules apply for everyone,” he made it clear.

Asked about the element of risk being involved in playing through injury, Kohli said: "The physio can explain better. I don’t know the magnitude of the risk. All I know is that if I go through fitness test, I will take the field.”

Kohli today had a 20-minute net session and asked how he felt, he explained that reactive movements are only in a match situation.

"It’s very different from competition, that’s one thing. Something that I experienced in Ranchi, when you have reactive movements, the magnitude of your injury comes out. Those are the things that we have to keep in mind, physio (Patrick Farhart) wants to give it a bit more time till I can test myself and probably we will take a call later tonight or tomorrow before the game. We will have to give it that much time more to make a call with the physiotherapist."