Australia’s young opener Sam Konstas got welcomes to Test cricket with a shoulder bump from Virat Kohli at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). After the on-field spat, an old video of Konstas surfaced on social media, where he revealed the star batter to be his ‘idol’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had a little chat after the game telling him that I idolise him, and it\u2019s obviously a huge honour playing against him<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Konstas said in a conversation with CODE Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen I did verse him, I was like, \u2018wow, Virat Kohli is batting.\u2019 He just had that presence about him, all the Indian crowd getting amongst it. Chanting his name. It was quite surrea<\/em>l<\/strong>,” he added<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe was very down to earth. A lovely person and just wishing me all the best saying hopefully I go well on the tour of Sri Lanka he said if I\u2019m in<\/em><\/strong>,” he further added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy whole family loves Virat. I\u2019ve idolised him from a young age and he\u2019s a legend of the game<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 19-year-old made his debut in Test cricket in Melbourne, and further went on and scored a half-century. and is one of the batters whom Cricket Australia has given the allowance to play in a few Big Bash league (BBL) games before heading to UAE for a predatory camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young Australian opener Sam Ko revealed his conversation with Virat Kohli after the BGT, as the youngster considered the Indian star batter to be his ‘idol’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":1221343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[191,2060,98105,144],"yoast_head":"\n