WATCH: Kohli and Paine’s frosty handshake

Dixit Bhargav | 18/12/2018
Kohli and Paine's frosty handshake

Kohli and Paine’s frosty handshake: Both the captains were seen shaking hands with each other after the match ended.

Given the amount of banter that has happened between both the captains in Tim Paine and Virat Kohli in the recently concluded Perth Test, temperatures were bound to increase between both the teams.

Luckily for the game, there was no swearing throughout the match despite several players going at each other. Kohli’s doubtful dismissal in the first innings and him emulating Peter Handscomb during practice further raised the bar during the Test.

After Australia completed a 146-run victory to come back in the series, the hosts were the all-round winners of all that had been happening since Day 1. While Kohli seemed to not make a fuss about all the banter during the presentation, he was seen in an intense and frosty handshake with his counterpart Paine.

It all happened when all the players were shaking hands with each other. While Paine was seen saying something to Kohli, he seemed to have made a straight face and not utter a word.

Watch the full video below:

 

Former Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson, who was actively expressing his views on both camera and social media platform Twitter throughout the match, retweeted the above video praising Paine and his leadership.

 

Read some of the latest Twitter reactions by Johnson below:

 

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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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