Mitchell Johnson takes a dig at Virat Kohli; Twitterati severely troll him
Pat Cummins accounted for Kohli's wicket.
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
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
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