“It’ll be nice”: Tim Southee jokes with fan on dismissing Virat Kohli in WTC Final vs India

Dixit Bhargav | 17/05/2021
"It'll be nice": Tim Southee jokes with fan on dismissing Virat Kohli in WTC Final vs India

Tim Southee jokes with fan: An Indian fan was seen joking around with the senior Kiwi pacer at an airport in New Zealand.

A majority of New Zealand’s cricket players have reached England for their imminent two-match Test series against England followed by the final match of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship against India.

While one group reached London from Auckland via Singapore, another one, which had taken part in Indian Premier League 2021, landed in England from Maldives.

Comprising of batsman Ross Taylor, wicket-keeper batsman BJ Watling and the bowling pair of Tim Southee and Neil Wagner, the group from Auckland encountered an Indian fan at the airport to register an amusing incident.

Upon clicking a selfie with Taylor initially, the fan then click one with Southee. “Are you going to take Virat Kohli’s wicket, buddy,” the fan asked Southee.

“It’ll be nice,” a smiling Southee responded.

Scheduled to be played from June 18, the Test Championship final will be the first time when India and New Zealand will lock horns against each other at a neutral venue.

In eight Tests against India, Southee has picked 39 wickets at an impressive average and strike rate of 24.46 and 43.2 respectively including a couple of five-wicket hauls. As far as his battle with Virat Kohli is concerned, he has dismissed the Indian captain thrice in 10 Test innings. In the five Tests that Southee has played in England, his 20 wickets have come at 34.30 and 63.1.

Kohli, on the other hand, has scored 773 runs in 17 Test innings against New Zealand at an average of 51.53 including three centuries and as many half-centuries.

Tim Southee jokes with fan on dismissing Virat Kohli in WTC Final vs India

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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