Virat Kohli SPITS at MCG fans who were booing at Indian star, video goes viral
The frustration in Team India boiled over for the second day in a row in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Gound (MCG) on Friday. A combination of listless bowling and captaincy meant that the Australians piled up 474 in their first innings with Steve Smith notching up his 34th Test ton – his second in a row after the third Test at the Gabba.
Virat Kohli was in the spotlight once again after escaping with a fine on the opening day on Thursday. The former India captain was heckled and booed by the MCG crowd on Friday after his shoulder bump with debutant Sam Konstas on Day 1 of the fourth Test.
On one such occasion while fielding the ball from the long-on boundary, Kohli was once again booed and his reaction was spitting at the hostile crowd. Kohli would argue that he was spitting out his chewing gum but it was clearly a reaction to the crowd’s behaviour. The video of Kohli spitting at the MCG fans soon went viral on social media.
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Kohli got away with a fine of 20 per cent of his match fees and one demerit point to his record after his ‘shoulder bump’ with Konstas on Day 1 of the Boxing Day Test. Many former cricketers and the Australian media believed that Kohli deserved to be banned for the Sydney Test for his physical clash with the Australian youngster.
Speaking on 7 Cricket before the second day of the match, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting said, “Personally, I do not think it (the punishment) was harsh enough. I know there are precedents (where similar infringements have incurred similar-sized penalties) – they have generally been between a 15 and 25 per cent fine but let us have a think about the enormity of yesterday.
“It is probably the most-watched day of cricket all year all around the world. Imagine if that happens in a grade game on the weekend now, what is going to happen there? I think people are going to think that that is almost acceptable now.
“And unfortunately for someone like Virat, as we got told as players and as senior players, sometimes it is (the scale of punishment) just different for some people. He is a role model, he is somebody the cricketing world looks up to, so I personally do not think that the fine was harsh enough,” Ponting added.