The aggressive style of the Indian cricket team has been seen on the field in the last decade, in which the role of Virat Kohli is considered very important. Whereas earlier during the tours of Australia and England, Team India players did not appear very aggressive on the field, now the complete opposite is seen. In December 2014, when the Indian team was on a tour of Australia to play a 4-match Test series, by that time Virat Kohli had become a very important player of the team in all three formats. In such a situation, the phase of rhetoric against him from the Australian team had started even before the start of the Test series. In this series, the altercation between Kohli and Mitchell Johnson made the most headlines, in which a fast bouncer ball from Johnson went straight into Kohli’s helmet and he fell on the pitch at the same time. Now Kohli has narrated a very interesting story while revealing that incident.
How did it hit me on the head, I will hit so much
While talking about this Test series against Australia during an event, Virat Kohli said that this was the first Test of the tour and I was facing the first ball. Johnson bowled a bouncer ball which went straight to my head. At that time, only this thought came in my mind that after all I will play in this Test series for the next 60 days. During that time I had some difficulty in seeing and there were two more balls to be played before lunch. Now I feel very happy thinking about this incident. At that time there were only two options: fight or return. My reaction at that time was that how did he hit me on the head with the ball and it was in my mind that now I will hit him so much in this series.
Virat Kohli had scored centuries in both the innings
In the first match of this Test series, Virat Kohli took over the captaincy of the Indian team in the absence of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, in which he scored centuries in both the innings. On this tour, Kohli played 8 innings and scored 692 runs at an average of 86.50, in which 4 centuries and one half-century were seen with his bat. However, the Indian team was not successful in winning this Test series, in which it had to face a 2-0 defeat against the host team. In the year 2018-19, the Indian team, under the captaincy of Kohli, had achieved the feat of defeating Australia for the first time in a Test series at its home.
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