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Fifth toss loss leaves Kohli amused:

LONDON: It took the Indian team management more than a week to announce something that was there for everyone to see. Captain Virat Kohli said during the toss on Friday that premier offie R Ashwin had "aggravated his injury" while playing the Test in Southampton and would thus be unavailable for the final Test here at The Oval.His comment underlined the fact that Ashwin had played the Test with an injury, something that coach Ravi Shastri and vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane had denied over the last two Tests. "I don't think there is a fitness issue there in Ashwin's case," Rahane had said after Shastri announced the offie was "fit".The entire controversy could have been avoided had the team management come out in the open in the last three days and said that Ashwin wasn't 100 per cent as he stayed away from practice.In fact, the way Ashwin was handled in the Southampton Test was criticized by former England captain Mike Brearley . "He didn't look fit enough. And I was surprised that he bowled for so long at a stretch. Virat Kohli should have changed ends, tried to bowl others instead of giving him such a long spell from one end. Kohli's handling of Ashwin wasn't the best," Brearley said.The skipper couldn't believe his luck when he lost the toss for the fifth time in succession in the series. "I will probably need two heads to win a toss now," the captain saw the lighter side of things.