KARACHI: Left-handed Australian opener Usman Khawaja took a hilarious dig at former India captain Kapil Dev’s remarks about the out-of-form batter Virat Kohli.
Kapil, stirred a debate with his infamous remarks about out-of-form Kohli when he said that dropping the former top-ranked batter from the T20I setup will not be a bad idea.
“Play in-form players when you have loads of options. You can’t just go by reputation, but you have to look for [the] current form. You can be an established player but that doesn’t mean that you will be given chances even if you fail five games in a row. Yes, there will be a headache, but he will have to perform better. If world No. 2 Test bowler Ashwin can be dropped from Test side then your No. 1 batter can also be dropped,” Kapil had told ABP News.
“I hope Kohli scores runs. And if there’s a [selection] challenge after that, it’s a big one. At the moment, Virat Kohli isn’t playing like the Kohli we know, the one that has made him a legend through his performances. If he isn’t performing, you can’t continue to keep these boys [youngsters] out. I hope there’s a healthy fight for selection, the youngsters should look to outperform Kohli. But Kohli needs to think, ‘yes at one point I was a big player, but I need to play like that No. 1 player again’. That’s a problem for the team, it’s not a bad problem,” he added.
Kapil’s statement gathered a lot of attention and even the International Cricket Council (ICC) posted a graphic of his quotes, to which Khawaja posted a cheeky reply.
“Averages 50 at almost 140. Good call. Australia Agrees,” Khawaja commented on ICC’s Instagram post with laughing emoticons.
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It is pertinent to mention here that Kohli is going through a rough patch in international cricket as the right-handed batter has not scored a century since 2019.
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