Sydney: The legendry batsman of Australia Neil Harvey said that the newly appointed captain of Test team of India Virat Kohli may calm down with responsibility of captaincy and behave better.
Notify that Virat Kohli has become the centre of attention after he has been involved in few tiffs with Australian cricketers during ongoing Test series.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni had taken retirement from Test cricket in between ongoing series after third Test. He is now captain for One Day International for Indian cricket team. His announcement had generated several questions with experts and former cricketers had given mixed reaction of his retirement.
Harvey while talking with Mid-Day said, “I think Kohli is full of his own importance really. Somebody has to teach him a lesson and maybe captaincy will help him a bit. That can do him a world of good, but we shall see. I would like to see Kohli behave himself better. He seems to be over-impressed by his ability. I think he’s a bit big-headed. He gets under the Australians’ skin. I don’t mind him doing that because they get under a lot of people’s skin and now they are getting a bit of it back.”
Harvey meanwhile appreciated Kohli’s talent and said that he had felt he was one for the future when the Indian had played well on the previous tour.
Harvey said, “Kohli performed very well on India’s last tour here. I recognized him as an up-and-coming star and he has really lived up to that. He’s a fine player, his technique is superb, plays straight all the time and can defend when he has to. He has got everything going for him and he’ll only get better.”
Harvey also appreciate Indian batsman and said, “You’ve got three to four good players, but the second half of the batting is pretty awful. Vijay is good, Kohli is excellent, Rahane is good too but from there on, it is pretty ordinary.”
Bureau Report
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