{"id":2843,"date":"2021-10-25T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=162223"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:58:08","slug":"if-you-want-controversy-please-tell-me-before-so-i-can-answer-accordingly-says-skipper-virat-kohli-when-asked-about-rohit-sharmas-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/if-you-want-controversy-please-tell-me-before-so-i-can-answer-accordingly-says-skipper-virat-kohli-when-asked-about-rohit-sharmas-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf you want controversy please tell me before, so I can answer accordingly,\u201d says skipper Virat Kohli when asked about Rohit Sharma\u2019s selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent times, there have been many rumors around the cricketing circuit about how things are not well between the Indian Skipper Virat Kohli and his deputy Rohit Sharma. There, however, has been no proof to it but that doesn\u2019t stop journalists and reporters to keep digging for a controversy. Sniffing an opportunity in the post-match conference on Sunday evening, after India suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of their arch-rivals Pakistan, a journalist questioned Rohit\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n<p>According to a video posted by ICC on their official Twitter handle, the reporter asked Kohli if he could have picked Ishan Kishan who played a flamboyant knock in the first warm-up game over the vice-captain of the team. Kohli seemed to have prepared for such a question and he counter-questioned the journalist if he would like Rohit to be dropped from the T20 side completely. \u201cWhat is your opinion?\u201d Kohli was heard asking the journalist in the video, \u201cwill you drop Rohit Sharma from T20 Internationals. You know what he did in the last game that we played?\u201d He then gave a wry smile and facepalmed at the audacity of the journalist to ask such a question. Before taking another question, he added, \u201cif you want controversy please tell me before, so I can answer accordingly.\u201d This response of Virat Kohli is winning his appreciation on the internet. Also, it officially clears up all the rumors of there being a rift between two world-class and most experienced batsmen in the Indian cricket team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"Will you drop Rohit Sharma from T20Is?\" \ud83e\udd14<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> had no time for this question following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#India<\/a>'s loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pakistan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pakistan<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvPAK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/T20WorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#T20WorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sLbrq7z2PW\">pic.twitter.com\/sLbrq7z2PW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1452448689977446401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>India on Sunday evening suffered a massive defeat at the hands of Pakistan, against whom they had a 100% track record in World Cups of all formats. This defeat exposed India\u2019s weak spots, but the men in blue are expected to return stronger in their next fixture.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a video posted by ICC on their official Twitter handle, the reporter asked Kohli if he could have picked Ishan Kishan who played a flamboyant knock in the first warm-up game over the vice-captain of the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":25927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2175,626],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2021","tag-ishan-kishan"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}