Virat Kohli's has every right to Steve Smith off!!!

[Bigg Brother]

Lol...Kohli isnt that dumb that he cant understand whether he was sledging the bowlers or commentating...It was clearly showing that Kohli trying to tell Smith go and commentate,its not an interview show!

[express bowling]

 

If it wasn't him, someone else would have got the mike. Come on yaar. That's silly.

Someone else would not have if the Australian team management told them not to.

There must be some demarcation between the Big Bashes of the world and serious international games.

Would you like it if Rohit or Kohli got out while talking to the commentators ?

Player involvement can be brought about by talking to a fielder just after a delivery has been bowled and the bowler is going back to the  start of his run-up.

 

Edited January 29, 2016 by express bowling

[MechEng]

Infinite loop OP.

[Bigg Brother]

Infinite loop OP.

What?

[MechEng]

What?

A thread within a thread within a thread to .....n times. 

[express bowling]

A thread within a thread within a thread to .....n times. 

Which is making this thread very " heavy " and slow.

[Ankit_sharma03]

So it was smith who said something 1st to pandya, as clip was shown smith saying something to pandya 1st 

and virat may have gotten under smith due to that

[beetle]

Let them wire up all 11 of theirs....keep distracting.Good for us.

For a change...I think Kohli was right.This is international cricket ,not Big Bash/IPL circus. 

 

[adi B]

Smith is such a wussy!!  Same with warner,watto,all crap talks but when someone gives it back they whine like crybabies!!

[Ankit_sharma03]

So yea , thats wat happ

Smith was constantly on our bowlers specially Pandya.....He got back from virat . 

N he clears he had no idea bout tht he had a mic on. It was all about him sledging our junior bowlers

N ohh man the respect he gets from aus players

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/virat-kohli-responds-steve-smith-send-off-sledge-australia-india-t20-series/2016-01-30?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ausvind

 

[Mosher]

So yea , thats wat happ

Smith was constantly on our bowlers specially Pandya.....He got back from virat . 

N he clears he had no idea bout tht he had a mic on. It was all about him sledging our junior bowlers

N ohh man the respect he gets from aus players

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/virat-kohli-responds-steve-smith-send-off-sledge-australia-india-t20-series/2016-01-30?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ausvind

 

Good on Kohli for having Pandya's back. This is the kind of stuff that builds a team and augurs well for Kohli as a future captain.

[Adi_91]

These Aussies are stunned that someone is giving it back to them. This has been an age lomg tradition to irritate players who come to their shores. Good to see that they are whining.

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

Lovely article 

 

On a blazing Sunday afternoon, just more than 47,000 fans were in attendance for the third One-Day International between Australia and India in Melbourne. Some days later, on a cold Friday (January 29) evening, about 60,000 fans thronged the MCG for the Twenty20 International between the same teams.

Clearly, the fans love the shortest game more.

It was the last international cricket game at the MCG for the summer, with India coming into it 1-0 ahead in the series. There were more reasons for the fans to come to the stadium despite the wet, windy and cold weather conditions. The T20 game brings in more families to the cricket – the mind-blowing numbers from the Big Bash League just additional proof of it.

Many have a choice of the player they would want to focus on. A father, who came to the stadium with his two kids, told me that his children get most excited when Glenn Maxwell is in action. Within minutes after Maxwell took strike, the kids – aged six and eight – were heart-broken. While they jumped on their seats when he walked in, they were crushed like cans after he was dismissed cheaply.

“They just love his style of play. He is a pretty cool stroke player, isn’t he?”

While there are still enough connoisseurs of Test cricket around Australia, Maxwell’s stroke-making ability is what the youngest among the fans now crave.

After he was dismissed, the father had to explain to the youngsters what was happening, and why it was happening. “Wickets are falling quickly, so it is important to bat defensively for just a couple of overs to get back into this game.” The slam-bang had to wait.

While the chase was edging towards a climax during the middle overs of the Australia innings, Virat Kohli was as active and energetic as ever. The cameras at the MCG focus him more than on anyone else – even when Kohli is at long-off or deep midwicket, the camera captures him more than it does the players out in the middle. His emotions are extremely engaging and it surely does impact the youngsters that come to watch the game.

Kohli wins the battle almost every time against the Australian bowlers, and that in itself has earned him respect in the opposition camp. His name doesn’t just ring around the MCG, it continues wherever the Indians go. It’s almost like the 1990s and Sachin Tendulkar – India might lose matches but Tendulkar rarely did.

After Kohli’s vocal send-off to Steven Smith in the first T20I in Adelaide, the media was divided in its opinion. Smith later came out and said, “I don’t really think that’s on.” But every Australian on the street supported I spoke with the same man and asked him if sledging sends the right signals for cricket’s newest followers. He said, “A banter is always nice, isn’t it? He plays the game with passion and it is perfectly all right for the kids too. Everybody sledges. It’s just a part of the sport for a very long time. Kids would not get affected by it.”

The taxi driver, who gave me a lift late in the night, apparently watched half the game with his son at home before getting out to work. “The best part about Virat Kohli is his passion. He loves the game to bits. It is absolutely all right for him to give it back to the Australians. Don’t the Australians do it all the time? David Warner is very loud. Steven Smith himself is cheeky. Shane Warne, Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath and, even, to an extent, Mark Waugh had a word or two to say to the opponents even after a batsman is dismissed,” he reasoned. “It is perfectly alright for Kohli to give it back especially when he knows that the Australians target the young ones in the time.”The opinion on Kohli was shared, and not restricted, to just the stadium.

That last bit has become common knowledge since Kohli told Channel 9 viewers during the break in the game that his aggressive verbals at Smith was in reaction to the Australian’s alleged sledging of Hardik Pandya, who made his debut in that match.

“These Australian cricketers almost always target the young blokes in the opposition, don’t they? No wonder Kohli gave it back,” said a police officer, who I met at the airport on Sunday as I waited to cheer on the Indian team as it took a flight to Sydney for the final game.

“It is not that Virat is all talk and no substance. He loves Australian fast bowlers. He loves scoring runs against us and he is just so special. He is very Australian in the way he plays cricket. He plays proper cricket strokes even in a T20 game. It is not that he uses his bat to chop wood. He plays pure and clean strokes. If Kohli was an Australian, he would be a superstar celebrated like Shane Warne probably,” the cop went on.

While Kohli’s quality as a batsman in Australia is recognised, his desire to win the game on Saturday night was discernible to everyone. He was very involved even during the ODIs, but in the T20Is, he has been sharing a fair bit of MS Dhoni’s load on the field. He was around the fast bowlers while standing at mid-off and mid-on and, even when Jasprit Bumrah was bowling the final over with the game done and dusted, Kohli was in the bowler’s ears throughout. Every minute of the game, whether it had to do with fielders being a few feet away from where they had to be or congratulating someone who had pulled off a good piece of fielding, it was Kohli, right there, all the time.

Playing the sport aggressively is the only way Kohli knows. He carries that with his body language in a very pronounced manner. When he dived to stop a ball at mid-on, he was aggressive. When he was the backup for a throw from Bumrah, he was, of course, aggressive.

 

Four years is a long time. When Kohli first toured with the Indian Test team, in 2011-12, he invited trouble for flipping the bird at a section of the Sydney crowd. It was unlike anything any Indian had done on a cricket field. Today, the man has emerged a victor.

As the Australian youngsters in the stands scream “Viraaat!” a hundred times before he turns around and waves or smiles at them, Kohli is more accepted, even embraced, in the cricket-watching community than he was back in 2012. The brash teenager is now being compared to the sport’s legends.

Dhoni’s joke about the Adelaide Oval soon having a stand after his name might well be just that, a joke, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. Like everyone keeps saying, isn’t he more Australian than Indian? Ask around – he is half-Ozzie now.

 

 

http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/virat-kohli-superstar-even-the-aussies-say-so/199319

[Bigg Brother]

How can that baby faced smith sledge anyone.

[Crookbond]

So yea , thats wat happ

Smith was constantly on our bowlers specially Pandya.....He got back from virat . 

N he clears he had no idea bout tht he had a mic on. It was all about him sledging our junior bowlers

N ohh man the respect he gets from aus players

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/virat-kohli-responds-steve-smith-send-off-sledge-australia-india-t20-series/2016-01-30?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ausvind

 

Full Interview 

 

 

[express bowling]

Good on Kohli for having Pandya's back. This is the kind of stuff that builds a team and augurs well for Kohli as a future captain.

A very smart thing to do for Kohli...he will have the full backing of the youngsters when they play under him.

[CF96]

How can that baby faced smith sledge anyone.

[Mosher]

 

Oh look a butthurt Paki making an appearance 

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

I wish ur player had that kind off passion, that they felt like this when their country looses a match

Instead they do this....

Ohhh the guy in ur photo is involved it , Irony