Virat Kohli behaved like a clown in South Africa: Paul Harris

[Turning_track]

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/australia-in-south-africa/paul-harris-drags-virat-kohlis-name-into-kagiso-rabada-steve-smith-controversy/articleshow/63312247.cms

NEW DELHI: Reacting to the Kagiso Rabada-Steve Smith controversy, South African left-arm spinner Paul Harris dragged Indian captain Virat Kohli’s name in to the mix claiming that during India’s tour of SA, Kohli behaved 'like a clown’ and yet no action was taken against him by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Harris, who played 37 Tests for South Africa, went on to say on Twitter on Monday that the two-match suspension on Rabada, after being found guilty of a Level 2 ICC Code of Conduct offence of 'inappropriate and deliberate physical contact with a player', shows that ICC has a problem with Rabada or the South African team.

Incidentally, the ICC had sanctioned Kohli for repeatedly complaining to the umpires about a damp ball and then aggressively throwing it to the floor during the second test against South Africa in Pretoria. He was fined 25 percent of his match fee and received one demerit point.
Rabada received a fine of 50 per cent of his match fee and three demerit points after a disciplinary hearing following his denial of the charge.

Rabada has accumulated eight demerit points within a 24-month period, automatically leading to a two-match suspension. The incident happened in the 52nd over of Australia's first innings of the second Test, when moving towards the slips, Rabada made contact with Steve Smith with his shoulder.

Earlier in the day, South Africa spearhead Vernon Philander took to Twitter to accuse Smith of initiating the shoulder contact with Rabada. Philander went on to say that Smith gave the shoulder to Rabada and is ‘just as guilty’ as the fast bowler. However, Philander was quick to backtrack and deleted the tweet, claiming his account was hacked.
Philander, who played the match in question, had also took a dig at the Australian skipper in the tweet stating that Smith could have avoided contact and it seemed that Smith could have tried ‘some football skills to get a penalty’.

 

[Hydra]

Kohli is a clown the way he carries on but never gets action taken against him he should be suspended for a game.

[TheWall]

12 minutes ago, Hydra said:

Kohli is a clown the way he carries on but never gets action taken against him he should be suspended for a game.

stfu... Tagadu... chu....

[TheWall]

Except ABD, rest of Saffers r chokers n effi.g cu..ts...

Edited March 15, 2018 by TheWall

[The Dark Horse]

Still better than lame cowardly acting by Elgar..

[Tattieboy]

Have to laugh at this from Paul Harris. The saying it takes one to know one is very apt in this case 

[Turning_track]

There was no need to bring Virat in this case. Rabada did know that he'd earn demerit points for his questionable actions, so why do it then when it means missing test matches?
2 test matches suspension might be a tad harsh, but he is not learning & I've been watching him give send offs, using foul words since 2015 when he was relatively new to his team.

[Tattieboy]

4 minutes ago, Turning_track said:

There was no need to bring Virat in this case. Rabada did know that he'd earn demerit points for his questionable actions, so why do it then when it means missing test matches?
2 test matches suspension might be a tad harsh, but he is not learning & I've been watching him give send offs, using foul words since 2015 when he was relatively new to his team.

 It's a misconception that Australian bowlers are the worst, they are not it's South African.

Australian yes do like to chirp but in the main it's about your ability as a batsman and some it is quite funny but South Africans are aggressive and nasty . I have seen South Africans run through the crease deliberately to bowl off 18 yards , beamers that " slipped" out , racially abuse  and yes bump into batsmen a few times . Indian bowlers never said a word which was part of their downfall to be seam attack bowlers , you need a but aggression in you .

[rkt.india]

35 minutes ago, Turning_track said:

There was no need to bring Virat in this case. Rabada did know that he'd earn demerit points for his questionable actions, so why do it then when it means missing test matches?
2 test matches suspension might be a tad harsh, but he is not learning & I've been watching him give send offs, using foul words since 2015 when he was relatively new to his team.

he did not seem to do it deliberately

[G_B_]

seriously?

 

everytime they want to make a point the western teams bring up kohli?

[Khota]

Rabada initiated a physical contact. There is a distinct line between verbal and physical. You initiate physical contact you are now enetering criminal area. Rabada should keep his damn mouth shut and apologize. And this is coming from someone who is neither a fan of Aussies or Kohli.

[Sachinism]

LMAO at how riled up people are in this thread

Edited March 15, 2018 by Sachinism

[Lannister]

The way they whined about the state of their own wickets, I think they deserve all of this. 

[TheWall]

45 minutes ago, Sachinism said:

LMAO at how riled up people are in this thread

ok. Lets replace Kohli with Sachin...

[coffee_rules]

Slow news day. What now, we will start debating on random tweets by average players, just because he mentioned Kohli ? Despite it being true 

[Sachinism]

2 hours ago, TheWall said:

ok. Lets replace Kohli with Sachin...

OK.

 

Why not let's just call Sachin a clown.

 

Now?

[putrevus]

I can understand why other people may get pissed off at Kohli's onfield antics but I feel he does to motivate himself and his team.

Edited March 15, 2018 by putrevus

[Vilander]

give as little attention to this as possible, because paul is being an attention seeking w$%#@ 

[kosingh]

Instead of complaining about the behavior of their current opponents, they are complaining about the behavior of their past opponents. 6 months later they'll start complaining about the behavior of David Warner. 

[ShebbySB]

Who gives a damn abt what a pie chucker thinks abt Kohli.