Virat Kohli during Day 1 of the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the MCG. (Photo by Philip Brown/Getty Images) Earlier this week, when news emerged that Virat Kohli and his family would shift to the United Kingdom, apart from the usual trolling endemic to social media in India, there was also a strange surge of support for the decision on social media. Most of it centered on how India was probably getting unsuitable to live in and those who could afford it should think about making the move.
It was a marked departure from the backlash that actor Aamir Khan received a decade ago when he spoke on the growing sense of fear in the country which had even made his wife ask if they should think of moving out of India. Sam Konstas on Kohli altercation: 'I was doing my gloves, he accidentally bumped me' The acceptance of Kohli's announcement, prompted by reasons different than those of the actor's, was an allusion to how things were in the country now and how those who could, were opting out. Then, as the Boxing Day Test dawned, Kohli, on his last tour to Australia by most estimates, went, and in a 60-degree veer off his path - as confirmed by well-informed sources - did that to the 19-year-old, floppy-bodied Aussie debutant, Sam Konstas .
Hot-headed is a term associated with the young; but when it stays on, it can become tiresome. At the MCG, Konstas, on his own journey of blossoming in Test whites, casually telling off Kohli with a half-smile that only the young can manage in th.
