As India captain Virat Kohli turned 32 on Thursday, he'd be glad to know that one of Australia's most successful captains, Steve Waugh, has thrown his weight behind him to come good in the upcoming series Down Under.

Waugh, 55, an authoritative and gritty skipper back in the day, believes the India captain will be well aware that he didn't score too many runs when Australia last visited India for a Test series (Kohli scored just 46 runs in three Tests in 2017) and was overshadowed by Steven Smith, who scored nearly 500 runs including three centuries. The following year, Kohli did well Down Under but there was no Smith in that Australian line-up. So this time, Waugh says, Kohli will have extra motivation to do well in the four-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, beginning December 17 at Adelaide.