AUS v IND 2018-19: I didn't like seeing Virat Kohli getting booed at Adelaide, says Ricky Ponting

Virat Kohli was booed by Adelaide crowd.

Virat Kohli booed in Adelaide Test | Getty Images

Australian cricket legend Ricky Ponting has revealed on Saturday (December 8) that the Adelaide Oval crowd served a special planned treatment to the Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Day 3 of the first Domain Test of the three-match series against Australia.

Ever since India and Pakistan have not met in any bilateral series, Australia-India rivalry is growing continuously on the field and the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy is the best evidence of that now.

Ponting, who is commenting in the Test series, further went on to reveals that the boos from the Adelaide crowd would have been "water off a duck’s back" for the dashing right-hander.

Former skipper further added that he didn’t like seeing Kohli getting booed, but he was seen more determined after receiving boos from a small section of the 30,000-strong crowd at the Adelaide Oval.

During his playing days, Ponting was himself booed by English supporters on many occasions during Ashes 2009 in England, but said Adelaide crowd practice even could not faze Kohli (34) one bit.

Ponting told cricket.com.au, “I don’t like seeing it at all. It didn’t worry me as a player when it happened in England a couple times. You’ve almost got to accept it as an acknowledgement for what you’ve done in the game. But I’d rather not see that happen at all.

He signed off by saying, “It’ll be water off a duck’s back (for Kohli), I’m sure. He’s probably had worse things happen to him on a cricket field, I would have thought, than getting booed by a couple of spectators as he walks on. If anything, it might have steeled him a little bit more. He (was) hardly playing a shot (early in his innings) and he looked like he wanted to really ground the Aussies into the deck.”

(With Cricket Australia Network Inputs)

 
 

By Rashmi Nanda - 08 Dec, 2018

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