Mitchell Johnson gets into Twitter war with Indian fans after his 'Kohli should retire' comment

12/27/2018

Mitchell Johnson has been on a spree of his own on Twitter nowadays and taking potshots at Virat Kohli has become a hobby. He even made a comment that Kohli should retire if he fails to score a century in Melbourne and Twitter didn’t show him any mercy for his ‘immature’ statement.

Virat Kohli and Mitchell Johnson share a history of the verbal duel and their fight in the Boxing Day Test of 2014 started a bitter chapter between the duo. During that Test, Kohli played a delivery back to Johnson, who then threw it back at the stumps, taking down the batsman. Although he immediately apologised for it, Kohli was in no mood to accept it and in the press conference following that, he had stated that he didn’t have any reason to respect the Aussie. The fight, however, has reached its peak in the ongoing series now, although it is clear that Kohli certainly doesn’t care about it.

After a series of reply regarding the Indian skipper’s behaviour, Johnson went on to write a column for Fox Sports, where he took a dig at Kohli for crossing the proverbial “Line” when he went chest to chest with Tim Paine. Yesterday, he decided to take a dig at Kohli’s batting after posting a picture of a concrete road on Twitter, a sly dig at the nature of the surface of the wicket in Melbourne. That irked the Indian fans and one among them commented that Johnson was giving excuses as Kohli was sure to score a century. That made Johnson take the challenge head on and he replied Kohli should retire if he wouldn’t be able to score a 100 on such a docile surface.

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— Mitchell Johnson (@MitchJohnson398) December 26, 2018

No excuses, I’m not playing. If he doesn’t score 💯 plus on this, he should retire 😁
— Mitchell Johnson (@MitchJohnson398) December 26, 2018

When a website reported the incident, Johnson said that he was just making a joke, but people were hardly forgiving, reminding him the 169 that Kohli scored in his 692-run series in Australia.

You understand that this is a joke right? 🤦🏼‍♂️
— Mitchell Johnson (@MitchJohnson398) December 26, 2018

Still can't forget the nightmare #Virat gave u on 2013-14 tour 🤣
— ab rahuman (@abu_rahu) December 26, 2018

To which, Johnson had an immediate reply saying Kohli might have dominated with the bat, but he must have had nightmares after Australia won the series.

What nightmare was that? I think he had the nightmares after we won that series ✌🏼
— Mitchell Johnson (@MitchJohnson398) December 26, 2018

Yeah he did score runs and so did other Indian players that series but we won that series so I’m very happy to win series even if I don’t get the wickets I wanted, as long as played for the team 👍🏼
— Mitchell Johnson (@MitchJohnson398) December 26, 2018

Today, however, Kohli was dismissed for 82 runs and failed to complete his century. Someone, somewhere in Queensland must be smiling now.