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XtraTime Web Desk: India skipper Virat Kohli is yet to find his form in the ongoing New Zealand tour. In the last Test at Basin Reserve he has only scored 2 and 19 respectively in two innings. Now Neil Wagner, the BlackCaps pacer who is returning to the side after a paternity leave is again targeting the India skipper ahead f the second Test which is starting on Saturday in Christchurch. "Every team I play against I always try and target and go for their best players, because you know what a big stride it makes within a team when you get their best players out," Wagner told Stuff. "Drying him up, making sure they don't score and putting a lot of pressure on him from both ends [is imperative]." Wagner has dismissed Kohli three times in six innings in Test cricket, bowling 108 balls to him and conceding 60 runs for an average of 20.00. The first of these dismissals came in Auckland, during the first Test of India's last tour of New Zealand in 2013-14. Chasing an improbable 407, India were giving New Zealand a real scare, with Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan putting on 126 for the third wicket. Then, with India 222 for 2, Wagner removed Kohli, and soon followed up with the wicket of Dhawan with a wicked bouncer from around the wicket. Wagner's 4 for 62 in that innings was critical to New Zealand's 40-run win, and he said it was one of the performances that helped him find his bearings as a Test cricketer. "I think it was a stage where I was still trying to find my feet in the team and trying to find a way of getting a role and doing my role in the team," Wagner said. "That's one of the Test matches where it did turn. The way I bowl at the moment, that's where it started. "It was an amazing Test win and something I always look back to and I think it kickstarted my career. Before that I was going through the phase where you have quite a few ups and downs and try to find your feet." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pqB91S78HI