Virat Kohli missed portions of India‘s innings defeat to England at Lord’s after being forced off the field due to a back niggle, but says he will be fine for the third Test, which starts on Saturday at Trent Bridge.

“The good thing is I have five days before the next Test,” he said. “We are confident that, with rehab and strengthening, I should be ready for the next game although not (with) the same intensity in the field.

“But I should be good enough to hold a position in the field and be 100% with the bat.

“Again, I will have to look at the running bit of things, which was difficult today. As of now it is sore.”

Kohli explained on Sunday that he’d had the same injury in February, missing a T20I in South Africa.

“As of yesterday and today it was not great,” he said. “The back is one thing that can be very tricky when it goes off.

“It happened during the latter half of the last leg of the South Africa tour when I missed a T20I game because that was very sudden. It happened one day before.”

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