In 2008, when India won the Under-19 World Cup, pictures of young captain Virat Kohli holding the gleaming trophy were on the front pages of newspapers. That's when he started being called the future superstar. In the coming times, he was being called the captain of Team India. At that time these were just guesses which later proved to be correct but they could also be wrong. In that victory, such an image of Kohli was also seen, which was not a guess but started being proved right from that time itself and has remained intact for the last 16 years. Kohli's aggression, the excellent performance that came out of this aggression and a kind of pride arising from the success of this performance. After 16 years, everything remains intact, just one thing is missing – performance.

Ups and downs showed changes in attitudes

The story of Virat Kohli's aggressive attitude is not new. This was visible even during his Under-19 days and then its glimpse was visible from the early days of international cricket. In his long career, Kohli fought with many players, many players quarreled with him, he had quarrels with the spectators and he also had altercations with the media. But till a few years ago, he used to answer all these with his bat. The more aggression was visible during fielding, during wicket celebrations or in press conferences, the better was his performance.

It was this aggression that established him as one of the best batsmen of this generation and the most successful captain in the history of Indian cricket. This success also turned them into the biggest brand of cricket. He not only became the face of the companies' advertisements, but even the broadcasters started using him as their biggest marketing weapon. But in the last few years, Kohli gradually became loose on the field with his bat and then also with his attitude. In the last five years, barely one and a half years have been good for him. During this period too, he had some big controversies but still there was a change in his temperament. It was believed that perhaps failure had taught him to be restrained and now his pride was no longer the same as before.

But the illusion was broken in Australia

But the Australia tour also broke this illusion. Now is it the effect of the Australian air and water or the effect of old bitter experiences with Australian players and fans that Kohli has again started appearing in the same form, which we have become habituated to seeing on the TV screen in the last more than a decade. Was. Melbourne Test is a living example of that. Whatever happened in this test, the foundation for it had been laid a few days earlier. Before the start of this series, the Australian media used big adjectives for Kohli and created an atmosphere for the series in Kohli's name, but as soon as he had a fight with an Australian reporter at the airport before the Melbourne Test, the whole atmosphere changed. Went.

Kohli reprimands Australian reporter for refusing to take pictures and videos of his children. The Australian media and the Indian media present there have their own versions regarding how serious the matter was. But the Australian media capitalized on this and Kohli started being called a 'bully' i.e. a bully. Kohli may have his reasons right but shouldn't he have talked to the journalist casually? This is a question on everyone's lips. Perhaps this started affecting Kohli too and for him it was a question of 'ego' that now he would teach the Australians a lesson in their own home.

Now Virat only fights, forget fighting with the bat

Indian fans might have had the same wish, but what was seen on the first day of the Melbourne Test was in true sense Kohli's 'dominance', which was completely unnecessary. A young batsman of only 19 years, who was playing the first international match of his career, his vigorous batting enraged Kohli and he went straight to him and hit him on the shoulder. The irony is that this young batsman has been considering Kohli as his idol since the very beginning, but Kohli, ignorant of the world and engrossed in his 'ego', would hardly have been aware of this. Perhaps Kohli was also surprised by the fact that after 16 years of experience, while he was yearning for every single run, this 'kid' was washing the Indian bowlers.

If this was not enough, Kohli again messed with the Australian fans. Not even once, but twice in two days. After clashing with Constants, when Kohli was fielding on the boundary, the Australian fans started booing against him and Kohli's answer was – chewing and spitting at them. The next day, when Kohli, who was looking in good form after playing a fighting innings, got out and started leaving, then some fans started making fun of him. Firstly, he was the culprit in the run out of Yashasvi Jaiswal and then after losing his wicket due to his own old mistake, Kohli's temper was high. In such a situation, he could not tolerate all this and went to fight with the fans.

It is not that Kohli is doing all this for the first time or that all this is happening to him for the first time. The only difference is that till then Kohli, who used to spit on a player and sometimes showed his shoe to someone, was scoring a lot of runs but now he is not able to do all this. So far on the Australia tour, he has scored only 162 runs in 6 innings. Had runs been coming in, perhaps all these activities would have been ignored again, but now he looks just like an empty vessel, which is just making noise.

This coincidence is also amazing

By the way, it is also a coincidence that the world saw Kohli's first fighting form on the field on Australian soil only. In 2011-12, 21-year-old Kohli went to Australia for the first time for a Test series. As usual, the Australian crowd targeted the aggressive young players of the opposing team, which was a new experience for Kohli and hence he could not make the deal. Result- In the Sydney Test, he made an obscene gesture by pointing his finger at the audience. After 13 years, Kohli is fighting again in the same manner in Australia. The only difference is that at that time Kohli's career was just starting and he had only time to respond with the bat, now he is short of time.