Watch: Virat Kohli walks to bat amid boos at MCG

Kohli is in limelight as he was embroiled in an uncalled-for scuffle with debutant Australia batter, Sam Konstas.

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Australia continued their solid batting on Day 2 of the fourth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground AS They ended their innings posting a huge total of 474 runs. Meanwhle, India lost skipper Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul early as they were back in the hut with India reeling at 51/2. After tea, Virat Kohli entered the arena and he was welcomed by the Australian crowd with boos. 

For the unversed, Kohli is in limelight for wrong reasons as he was embroiled in an uncalled-for scuffle with debutant Sam Konstas on the opening day of the fourth Test. During Australia’s batting, Konstas looked in fine touch as he smashed the India bowlers all over the ground. The former India captain walked up to him and brushed his shoulder in the 10th over of the Australian innings.

Here's the vided of Kohli getting booed: 

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Kohli's antics were criticised by the former cricketers and even former India head coach Ravi Shastri seemed unimpressed. 

"When you see that, it's not needed at that moment of time," Shastri told Star Sports. "I think Virat will realise that later, with the stature he has in the game, he's captained the side for many, many years. In heat of the moment, things do happen. But on reflection, I would say it was unnecessary. You don't want to see such things. There's a line, you don't want to overstep that line."

Meanwhile, Kohli was fined 20 percent of his match fee as the penalty and was also handed one demerit point for his on-field conduct. As for Konstas, the debutant  went on to score his maiden Test half century and ended his innings scoring 60 of just 65 balls. 

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Speaking of the Indian innings, Rahul, who is termed as the best Indian batters on this tour was demoted to number three from his opener’s slot. Rohit, who batted in the middle order in the second and third Test, opened the innings and was dismissed for just three runs. Rahul, whose defence technique is lauded in the series, was undone by a peach of a delivery from Pat Cummins.

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