Virat Kohli denies former Australian cricketer for interview

Dixit Bhargav | 22/01/2019
Virat Kohli denies former Australian cricketer

Virat Kohli denies former Australian cricketer: The Indian captain is said to have denied permission to a former Australian cricketer.

India captain Virat Kohli is said to have denied permission to a former Australian cricketer for an interview during the recently concluded India’s tour of Australia. If reports are to be believed, Kohli initially said that he can’t do to the interview till the Test series ends, keeping the same stance after it ended.

Kohli might not have topped the batting charts on this tour but this tour will be remembered as witnessing his immense growth as a leader. Not that he didn’t contribute with the bat at all, he scored two crucial centuries across formats but the sight of him lifting trophies (Test and ODI) will remain in the hearts of the Indian fans.

Given his current stature in world cricket, it is not a surprise that Kohli was asked for an interview. If reports in Mumbai Mirror are to be believed, Kohli refused the former cricketer on purpose.

“Only when they want something, they [certain ex-players] will speak to you a certain way. But it doesn’t matter to me if I’m talking to you or someone who has 15,000 runs, at the end of the day it’s human interaction. I’m not going to go above and beyond just because you have 15,000 runs. They don’t see it that way, but I do,” Kohli was quoted as saying by the website.

There are speculations that it was one out of former World Cup-winning Australian captains in Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting, who asked the Indian captain for an interview.

A source in Australia revealed that Waugh’s manager asked an influential Indian if an interview with Kohli can be organized. Waugh might not be holding any media contracts in Australia currently but it is supposed that he wanted to do something for Cricket Australia if the interview had materialized.

(Mumbai Mirror inputs)

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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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