Be angry and challenge Kohli, Vaughan's message to England

Be angry and challenge Virat Kohli, urged former captain Michael Vaughan to an English side hosting an ambitious India, for long seeking to shed the poor travellers' tag, in a highly-anticipated Test series.

Besides, the 43-year-old who opened for his country for almost a decade, wants the seasoned Alastair Cook to show consistency and skipper Joe Root to convert his starts into monumental knocks. Cook has played alongside the player-turned-expert in the beginning of his career.

He prefers a five-man bowling attack and last but not the least, Vaughan goaded the pace duo of Stuart Broad and James Anderson to "step up and challenge Virat Kohli's front foot".

"Joe Root needs to hammer home to his men that they have a point to prove and try to replicate that angry England team that arrived at Headingley and hammered Pakistan in their last Test. Go back and say to the players: 'What were you thinking that first day at Headingley?," Vaughan wrote in the 'Daily Telegraph'.

"Sometimes it is not done in team chats. Sometimes you are better off speaking to individuals. Go to each individual and ask: 'Why did you arrive in Leeds with more intensity'?"
"England will not win every game, they are not good enough, but their mindset and mentality can be the same every week."
"He has found his form in the one-day game and got out of his system the frustration and anger, and trying to bat like someone else rather than trusting his own game. All he needs is to be himself."
"This is the perfect series. The pitches will be good, he is a great player of spin and you can wear India's seamers down because I don't think they will be that disciplined. Outfields will be rapid. Everything is set up for Joe to have a great series."
"Yes, Cook has to look after his own performance, but it would be nice to take Jennings with him so whenever he leaves the Test team he has made sure England have a decent, half-experienced opening batsman to take on his mantle."
"He scored a hundred on debut in Mumbai and it is always nice to know you are playing against a team you have had success against before. That could be worth a lot for him."