Virat Kohli misses press conference after controversy involving Indian cricket journalist
Virat Kohli misses press conference after controversy involving Indian cricket journalist
India vice-captain Virat Kohli has not turned up for the press conference ahead of their clash against the West Indies at Perth in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 tournament on Thursday. Instead of Kohli, spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has come out to talk to the media. Virat Kohli did not use abusive language: Indian team management
As per the protocol, the Indian team always sends the ‘Man of the Match’ of their last game for the press meet ahead of their next fixture. But there was a word in the media that the Indian cricket star will come out to conduct the press and even possibly apologise for the abuse he hurled towards the Indian cricket journalist, belonging to national daily Hindustan Times. Virat Kohli like incident should be avoided in future: Anurag Thakur
Earlier reports said that Kohli had lost his cool after a training session at the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Ground in Perth, on the journalist as Kohli thought this particular journalist had written an article on the Indian cricketer’s relationship with Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma. Kohli did not like what was written and thus the outburst.
According to PTI, it didn’t occur to anybody that something of this sort will happen. Once Kohli was done with his training and was returning to the dressing room, he saw a scribe of a national daily in front of him. To the horror of that journalist, Kohli started using filthiest of language and it went on for some time before he stormed off and some of the Indian team members looked amazed as to what exactly had happened. ICC Cricket World Cup 2015: Pool-wise Team Standings
The report added that the journalist was also clueless as to why Kohli was hurling abuses at him. Once Kohli cooled down, he told the journalist that he was not happy with a particular story being written. It was also reported that Kohli had later on taken the journalist aside and apologised personally. Top 10 batsmen in ICC Cricket World Cup 2015