Former Pakistani cricketer Rashid Latif recently walked down the memory lane and recalled the two instances of Indian skipper Virat Kohli which left a deep-rooted impact on fans and cricketers. While explaining the reason why bowlers shouldn’t mess with Kohli during a game, Latif said that the swashbuckling batsman scored consecutive hundreds in the Test series against Australia in 2014.
After the third Test of that series, legendary wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni announced his retirement from Whites and the responsibility came on the shoulders of Kohli. However, he successfully filled the void of former skipper in the longest format of the game. With his excellent performance against the Aussies in the 2014 Test series, Kohli proved his batting prowess to the world.
Speaking about Virat Kohli in his recent YouTube video, Latif said, “In 2014 series, when Dhoni retired after two Tests. Then there was one Test, in which Virat Kolhi scored two tons in each innings (Actually, Kohli had scored a ton in first innings of 3rd Test at MCG, and in 1st innings of 4th Test at SCG. He scored an unbeaten 76 in the 2nd innings at SCG). In that match, Mitchell Johnson stepped up to Kohli, and dono ke beech theek thaak gaaliyaa chal ri tha.”
“There are some players you don’t mess up with. We had Javed Bhai, Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar. Today, Virat Kohli is one such player.”
Further, Latif spoke about India’s T20I series against West Indies last year, where Kohli imitated Kesrick Williams’ “notebook celebrations” after hitting him for a six in Hyderabad.
Williams had given his signature send-off to the Indian skipper back in 2017 and Kohli successfully took his revenge in three-match home series.
“Recently, in a T20I match against West Indies, a left-arm pacer (actually, it was a right-arm pacer Kesrick Williams) said some words to him. Even though Kohli does not score too many runs in T20Is, but he went on to play great innings in that match,” Latif added.