Appreciate ‘terrific’ Virat Kohli’s gesture in 2019 World Cup, states Steve Smith

After Australia defeated India 3-2 in the subcontinent, the two teams met in the 2019 World Cup in a league stage game, at The Oval. When India lost to Australia at home, Steve Smith was still serving his ban from cricket and the World Cup was the comeback for Smith and Warner. Evidently, the crowd hadn’t warmed up to Smith and kept chanting ‘cheater’ when Virat Kohli came to the Aussie’s rescue. The Indian skipper, who was batting then, completed a single and gestured the crowd asking them to applaud Smith. The two players even shook hands and embraced each other at the end of the over while changing sides.

While the friendship between Smith and Kohli, when Australia had toured India in 2017, was rather sour, it has softened up over the years. In fact, about his gesture at the World Cup, Kohli had said that he didn’t Smith had done anything to deserve the boos and that if it was about the ball-tampering scandal, the former Australia captain had served his punishment.