'We will go to bed dreaming about getting Kohli out first thing', says Anderson

Virat Kohli remained unbeaten overnight with his team 110 for five in their second innings, needing 84 more on Saturday to go one up in the five-match series

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Jimmy Anderson says England will “go to bed dreaming about getting Virat Kohli out first thing” with the first Test against India sitting on a knife-edge at Edgbaston.

Kohli remained unbeaten overnight with his team 110 for five in their second innings, needing 84 more on Saturday to go one up in the five-match series.

Reaching the target of 194 would represent India’s biggest successful chase in England but the game situation remains far too close to call after another pulsating day in Birmingham.

Anderson, whose ongoing battle with Kohli continues to be the most fascinating story within the story so far, insists that the visiting captain is “not invincible”.

And he knows the importance of getting rid of him if England are to secure a dramatic victory.

^{India captain Virat Kohli}

Asked whether the result lay simply in the dismissal of tourists' skipper, he said: “More than likely. If he bats like he did first innings, yes. Even batting with the tail, it was so hard to keep the tailenders on strike. He managed to find the gap.

“We need five wickets and we need them fairly quickly, otherwise they’ll get the runs. We’ve got to give it everything we’ve got and leave nothing out there.

“It’s a really exciting place to be. We know we could do something special tomorrow by winning this Test match. We’ll go to bed dreaming about getting Kohli out first thing.”

Kohli, who will start again on Saturday unbeaten on 43, averages more than 55 in the fourth innings of Test matches and will not be easy to budge. But the task is not an impossible one, according to Anderson.

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“On another day I could have got him for 20 and we’re not talking about how brilliant he is,” The seamer said, reflecting on the chance dropped by Dawid Malan at second slip in the first innings. Kohli went on to score 149.

“No one is invincible in world cricket. We can get him out and that’s what we’ll be looking to do in the morning.”

Anderson is ready for the challenge. And he says the rest of the England attack, rested and refreshed, will be ready for it too.

“Tomorrow we’ve got a really good chance of winning the game, if we get a couple of early wickets,” he said.

“That was a long last session for us. Towards the end we were probably getting a bit tired.

“We know it’s probably going to be 25, 30 overs max one way or the other. We can have that in our minds, to freshen it up and gear up to give it all we can.”