Mitchell Johnson takes a dig at Virat Kohli; Twitterati severely troll him

Virat Kohli flattered to deceive with the willow in the opening Test against India, which India won by 31 runs. However, the 30-year-old was in a different zone as he churned out a stupendous knock of 123 runs from 257 deliveries. His knock was laced with 13 boundaries and a six. He came to bat after India were reduced to 8/2 following yet another failure from the openers.

He batted until the 93rd over and was eventually nipped out by fast-bowler Pat Cummins. In the 82nd over, he nailed a drive off Mitchell Starc to bring up his 25th Test century. His knock came to an end when he tried to drive the leather and the ball took the bat’s outside edge into the palms of Peter Handscomb, who didn’t make much of a mistake while grasping the ball.

Johnson criticise Virat

The third umpire’s services were required after the on-field umpires soft-signalled it as ‘out’. The third-umpire didn’t have much evidence to overturn the initial decision. In the meantime, former Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson was highly dissatisfied with Virat Kohli not walking after the dismissal.

He also brought forth KL Rahul’s catch to dismiss Josh Hazlewood in the first encounter. Off-spinner Ravi Ashwin, who isn’t a part of the ongoing Test, was the bowler in that case. The dismissal also pulled the curtains down on the contest. Johnson mentioned that while Virat Kohli didn’t walk, Hazlewood did.

He took to Twitter and wrote, “One batsman walked the other didn’t, both out. Handscomb catch was soft out & went to third umpire given out, Rahul catch given out on field hazelwood walked no questions. Scoreboard says out for both so happy with both decisions,”

Here is Johnson’s tweet

One batsman walked the other didn’t, both out. Handscomb catch was soft out & went to third umpire given out, Rahul catch given out on field hazelwood walked no questions. Scoreboard says out for both so happy with both decisions. pic.twitter.com/DQr70kZ7uT

— Mitchell Johnson (@MitchJohnson398) December 16, 2018

However, the users on Twitter wasn’t satisfied with Johnson by any stretch of the imagination. Subsequently, they slammed Johnson left, right and centre.

Here are the trolls

Yet not appreciate Kohli hundred

— deepak rathee (@deepak_rathee15) December 16, 2018

He was upset and disappointed with the way he was out

— deepak rathee (@deepak_rathee15) December 16, 2018

too much hate on kohli ..😄 world knows the past of you guys

— velmurugan ganapathi (@gsdvel999) December 16, 2018

Loved the way he smashed you everywhere in 2014 after you were blabbering in the media after every match day

— S dev (@shyamdave05) December 16, 2018

You wanna say something about his century?😂

— Vishnu (@Vishnu_48) December 16, 2018

Why are you so opposing Kohli so much?Is it because team India is 1-0 up in the series?You've got an answer to all the appraisals of Kohli.Well Australia has always been afraid of Kohli,is that why you want to point out all the cons of Kohli?You know he wants to stay till the end

— Arnav Gupta (@ArnavGu50734541) December 16, 2018

Virat was not out . So don't compare.

— Manish (@MkDixit1079) December 16, 2018

You neither on the ground playing the match, nor you are the umpire, so don't compare.Let us make a comparison of all the Aussie playing 11 numbers with that of @imVkohli, will that be okay!
The thing is you Aussies act like umpires on field rather than improving your performance

— Jitmitra Kashyap (@jitmitrakax) December 16, 2018

Dear coward, why so scared of getting roasted and ending up blocking people doing that. @NeelPatel189 is waiting for you to unblock him. Will send some burnol as well. Dont worry pal.

— vamsy sivaarcca (@vamsy_sivaarcca) December 16, 2018

So you dont like yourself? Just take a look at your tweets and see how stupid and biased they are. If you're telling ur opinion on social media, let others too. Stop blocking them like a coward.#JusticeForPatelandVamsy

— Bhargav Sundararajan (@BhargavSundar) December 16, 2018

You reap what you sow! Talk sense, you wont get abused. Talk crap, you definitely will.

— Bhargav Sundararajan (@BhargavSundar) December 16, 2018

there are 11th batsman for hazzlewood and kohli was World no. 1 batsman , important wicket for this match so this is a not compare for wicket

— vijay yuvraj (@vijayyuvraj3) December 16, 2018

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