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Naseeruddin Shah Calls Virat Kohli ‘World’s Worst Behaved Player’; Fans Hit Back

Darpan News Desk IANS, 17 Dec, 2018 09:04 PM

    Veteran Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah is not amused with Virat Kohli's antics and has said so in as many words, calling Kohli the "world's worst behaved player".

     

    "Virat K is not only the worlds best batsman but also the worlds worst behaved player. His cricketing brilliance pales beside his arrogance and bad manners. And I have no intention of leaving the country by the way," Shah tweeted from his verified account.

     

    Virat K is not only the worlds best batsman but also the worlds worst behaved player. His cricketing brilliance pales...

    Posted by Naseeruddin Shah on Sunday, 16 December 2018
     

    While most people slammed Shah for calling Kohli the “worst behaved player”, others defended Kohli stating that to beat the Australians “This kind of aggression is needed”. However, many also agreed with Shah in criticising the cricketer.

     

    Virat Kohli has been in the trenches and involved in several verbal spats, so much so that rival captain Paine was caught on stump mic, telling Murali Vijay that couldn't possibly like Virat Kohli as a person.

     

    "I know he's your captain but you can't seriously like him as a bloke," the stump mic caught Paine as telling Vijay.

     

    The Kohli-Paine war of words began on Day 3 when the Indian skipper took a jibe at his Australia counterpart.

     

    The incident happened after the visitors went for a huge caught-behind appeal in the final over of the day. The stump microphones picked up Virat Kohli saying, "if he messes it up, it's 2-0," while referring to the Test series lead. Tim Paine promptly replied: "You've got to bat first, big head".

     
     
     
     
     
     

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