India’s skipper Virat Kohli unfriends Oz
Kohli says that friendship with Australian cricketers thing of the past
Indian skipper Virat Kohli said he no longer considered Australian cricketers as friends after winning a tense Test series marked by bad blood here on Tuesday. Kohli, who remarked before the series that he was "really good friends" with some Australian players, said things had changed during the bitter contest between the world’s top two sides. "I thought that was the case, but it has changed for sure. As I said in the heat of the battle, you want to be competitive, but yeah, I have been proven wrong," he said in a post-match press conference. "The thing I said before the first Test [about being friends], I have certainly been proven wrong and you won’t hear me say that ever again." The skipper caused a furore in the second Test after accusing his counterpart Steven Smith of repeatedly abusing the decision review system. Critics questioned Kohli’s conduct under pressure and also his form in the series with the right-hander scoring just 46 runs from five innings. Tensions were exacer...
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