As of now, it can be safely stated that Ishant is set to be benched after a poor show at Leeds.
The skipper, however, said that he won't pick on Ishant.
"I am not obviously watching his run-up as I am standing in the slips," Kohli was sarcastic when asked if he felt that Ishant was having a problem with his run-up.
"I watch the bat of the batsman and I am not analysing how he (Ishant) is moving in the field. I think he moved similar to the last game. There was no issue whatsoever and as a batting group we failed in the first innings and in the second innings, we did a much better job.
"As a bowling group also, we accept that we were not consistent enough. That's it."
As has been the case with Kohli's media interactions, he blamed the press -- who he often refers to as noise on the outside -- about the kind of questions being asked.
"I know what happens when we lose one game. I maintain this in the past that we are not going to fall into this space of picking on issues and not one or two things to talk about. We win as a team and we fail as a team."
He nearly lost his cool when a scribe asked if the team would have discussions about backfoot play.