Ravi Shastri Very Unhappy With Virat Kohli Over Sam Konstas Clash, Says: “Senior Star…” | cricket news

India stalwart Virat Kohli clashed with Australia’s 19-year-old opener Sam Konstas early on Day 1 of the fourth Test in Melbourne. During the ninth over, the duo shoulder-barged into one another, prompting Kohli to show again and provides Konstas a obtrusive look, in addition to change a number of phrases. Despite former Australia captain Ricky Ponting suggesting that Kohli was within the mistaken, the 36-year-old escaped with no ban, as a substitute solely being fined 20 per cent of his match charges by the International Cricket Council (ICC), as per sources to NDTV. . Now Ravi Shastri – who shared a great bond with Kohli throughout his time as head coach of Team India – has given his say on the matter.

“It’s unnecessary. Totally unnecessary. You don’t want to see that. Virat’s a senior player, he’s been captain of the side, he’ll have his own explanations regarding that, but it’s something you don’t want to see,” Shastri mentioned, talking on Fox Cricket.

Virat Kohli collision with Sam Konstas ‘completely pointless’ says Ravi Shastri

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“One person who will be all over it, though, is Andy Pycroft,” Shastri added with a chuckle.

Pycroft is the ICC match referee for the Boxing Day Test, which is by the way additionally his a centesimal Test match as a match referee.

As it turned out, Kohli was let off with a slap on the wrist, with the ICC contemplating it a Level 1 offence. Kohli has been fined 20 per cent of his match charges in accordance with sources to NDTV, the identical penalty handed to Mohammed Siraj after the second Test in Adelaide following his fiery send-off to Travis Head.

The incident wasn’t the one time Kohli was in an animated temper on Thursday. Later, Kohli was additionally caught by the stump mic telling Siraj to “not smile while talking” to the Australian gamers.

Australia ended Day 1 on the entrance foot, reaching 311/6 at Stumps. The high 4 batsmen of the facet all notched up half-centuries.