Centurion: An irate India captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday lost his cool and snapped at the scribes in a fiery media session after the series defeat against South Africa, his first reverse as full-time skipper.
When asked by the mediapersons about fielding the best possible playing XI and his team’s overseas record, Kohli was at his combative best.
“What is the best 11?” snapped Kohli when asked if India played the best combination in “sub-continental” conditions at Centurion. “If we had won this, was this the best 11? We don’t decide the 11 according to results. You are telling me that you could have played the best 11. You tell me the best 11 and we will play that,” the skipper went on.
Kohli was next asked about the trend of fielding different teams in all the Test matches under him and whether the team was losing because of too much chopping and changing. “How many Test matches have we won out of 34? How many have we won? How many have we won? 21 wins (20 actually). Two losses. How many draws? Does it matter? Wherever we play we try to do our best. I’m here to answer your questions, not to fight with you,” he countered.
Kohli also questioned his team’s commitment saying that the repeated fielding mistakes and soft dismissals by the batsmen were simply unacceptable. “At the end of the day one team has to lose. As a team you always try to win. You can accept defeat but not the way we played, the way we let the advantage slip out of our hands, which is not acceptable from a team’s point of view,” a visibly agitated Kohli said.
