India vs Australia | Biggest thing for us right now is to win Test series, says Ishant Sharma

Team India ended their T20I series on a positive note as they won the third and final match to draw the series 1-1 and prevent a loss in the opening phase of their tour of Australia. That must have been a much-needed morale booster ahead of the crucial four-match Test series which is scheduled to start on December 6 in Adelaide.

“We are pretty motivated,” he told reporters. “The biggest thing for us right now is to win the series. That’s what everybody is focussing on. We’re not even thinking about individual performances. We have just one aim – to win a series in Australia,” Sharma told reporters.

“I think I have played for 11 years now so I don’t need to think that I need to [prove myself]. I am not really the kind of person who thinks about what happened in the past. I am always looking forward to the future. I am looking forward to doing well on this tour,” Sharma added.

However, things are different this time round as India go into the Test series as favourites. The Aussies will be missing the likes of star duo - Steven Smith and David Warner, who are both serving one-year sanctions imposed by Cricket Australia.

“To be very honest, we don’t think about all these things,” he said. “It always depends on a given day. We know in cricket whoever is playing for their country are good enough. We don’t take anyone or anything lightly until we get the results,” the Delhi-born pacer said.