Fighting fire with fire.
That's the characteristics of Virat-Shastri combination (since their very first in Australia*). Sometimes those are termed as unnecessary aggression. But as an Indian cricket lover I missed this aggression since Ganguly era (Little glimpses in Kumble captaincy career also).
*I still believe Virat could have started his Test captaincy career with the biggest impact win in Australia only if the original captain of that tour wasn't against DRS.