The crowds at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on day two of the Boxing Day Test were heard heckling Virat Kohli, calling him a w*anker as a video of the same surfaced on social media. However, the 36-year-old looked unfazed by those chants as he gestured them to raise their voice even more while fielding on the boundary.
The Delhi-born cricketer had courted controversy on day one of the Boxing Day Test after making a shoulder contact with young Australian opener Sam Konstas in the first session. The two also exchanged some heated words as Usman Khawaja and the on-field umpire intervened. At the end of the day, it emerged that the former Indian captain had been fined 20% of his match fees and handed one demerit point.
Nevertheless, the Aussie crowds and media haven't spared the right-handed batter over the incident.
Virat Kohli has been inconsistent in the ongoing Test series against Australia
Meanwhile, the former Indian captain will be eyeing a return to form in the fourth Test against Australia. Kohli started the series with a single-figure score in Perth but slammed an unbeaten hundred in the second innings of the same Test.
However, his scores since then have been 7, 11 and 3, thereby inviting plenty of criticism. The tourists have their task cut out in Melbourne after Australia have amassed 474, headlined by Steve Smith's 140 and three half-centuries from their top three. Jasprit Bumrah (4/99) and Ravindra Jadeja (3/75) shared seven wickets between them as Australia made India toil for a day and a half.
