Adam Zampa made his IPL debut back in 2017 for Rising Pune Supergiant.
Australian leg-spinner Adam Zampa has been a fierce competitor of Indian skipper Virat Kohli. The duo has a good record against each other and IPL 2020 was the first time where they could connect with each other being in the same team.
Zampa recognizes Kohli as the most chilled out and a normal guy off the field but he knows how intense the man gets while playing cricket. He shared a memory of banter with Kohli on his IPL debut for Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) in 2017.
"Off the ground, he's the most chilled out guy," Adam Zampa enjoys Virat Kohli's company
Australian seamer Kane Richardson had posted a picture of Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers on Twitter. Zampa had commented sarcastically but it had not gone down well with the Indian fans.
Zampa told Sydney Morning Herald, "I replied, typical, just taking the piss, ‘Who are they, mate?’. The Indian fans did not let me live it down. Virat had seen it."
"I played my debut, bowled an over to him, the last ball of the over he smacked it for four, came down to me and said, ‘Stay a long way from Twitter, mate’. Basically, pipe down," he added.
That was the time when the Australian actually realized that Virat Kohli reads everything on Twitter. The RCB skipper was on fire that day and scored a century against RPS.
Zampa revealed, "I was like, ‘Geezers, this bloke reads everything on Twitter’. He went on to get 120 (Kohli had actually scored 105) that day. I stoked the fire."
(With inputs from Sydney Morning Herald)