{"id":1218066,"date":"2024-12-26T17:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=1218066"},"modified":"2024-12-26T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:05:50","slug":"its-totally-unnecessary-ravi-shastri-slams-virat-kohli-for-sam-konstas-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/its-totally-unnecessary-ravi-shastri-slams-virat-kohli-for-sam-konstas-incident-1218066\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s totally unnecessary&#8230;&#8217;: Ex-India star SLAMS Virat Kohli for Sam Konstas incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Things got very heated during the first day of the fourth Border-Gavaskar series Test. This happened after Virat Kohli and Sam Konstas bumped into each other on field and then were involved in a heated altercation. The duo were eventually calmed down by the players and on-field umpires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the incident, former India head coach Ravi Shastri slammed the Indian batter for\u00a0his &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; actions towards 19-year-old Konstas. Shastri also termed the incident as &#8216;something you don&#8217;t want to see&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unnecessary, totally unnecessary. You don&#8217;t want to see that. Virat is a senior player, he&#8217;s been captain of the side. He&#8217;ll have his own explanations as regards that. But it&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t want to see. One person who will be watching, his eyes will be locked into the proceedings, Andy Pycroft,&#8221; Shastri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kohli was fined by 20 per cent of his match fee by the International Cricket Council (ICC) following his heated exchange with Konstas. The India cricketer was also handed a demerit point by the global body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Konstas made headlines with his highly impressive debut knock of 60 runs from only 65 deliveries which included 2 unreal sixes to India seamer Jasprit Bumrah, who has proved to be a nightmare for almost every Australia batter throughout the series so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-India star in question here is Ravi Shastri, who believes that no one wants to see a senior player like Kohli perform such actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":1218067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[191,401,227,2060,663,98105,144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;It&#039;s totally unnecessary...&#039;: Ex-India star SLAMS Virat Kohli for Sam 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