Just days after Virat Kohli came up with a heartwarming gesture for Dean Elgar in his last Test, the former South Africa opener has made a sensational revelation about the India star.
Dean Elgar retired from international cricket after the second Test against India earlier this month. And after he was dismissed in the second innings of the game, Virat Kohli made sure that he got a fitting farewell. He stopped his teammates from celebrating Dean Elgar’s dismissal and walked up to him to share a hug with him. After the game, the former India skipper also gifted the ex-Proteas opener a signed jersey.
While Dean Elgar shared a memorable moment with Kohli in his last Test, things were very different when they two faced each other for the first time in 2015. Recalling South Africa’s tour of India in 2015, the left-handed batsman revealed that Virat Kohli had tried his best to get under his skin and even spat at him.
“Those wickets were jokes. Like playing on that… that surface there. And I came into bat and I was actually like holding my own against Ashwin and what’s his name Jeja, Jeja, Jeja (Ravindra Jadeja) (smiles) and Kohli, he like spat at me. I said to him if you do that, I’ll ******g ***** you with this bat,” said Dean Elgar while speaking on Banter with The Boys podcast.
When the host asked the opener whether Virat Kohli understood the South African profanity, he said: “Yes, he did because de Villiers was his teammate at RCB, so he understood. And I said if you do that, I’ll … on this field, I’ll absolutely knock you out. And then [he said] ‘Hey **** you, **** you’ (mimicking the Indian) but barking up the wrong tree yeah. Anyways, we are in India so you got to be a little bit cautious.”
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Dean Elgar brought down curtains on his Test career after the two-match home series against India. He starred in the first Test, playing a stunning knock of 185 as South Africa won the game by an innings and 32 runs. However, India defeated the Proteas in the second Test to level the series. Elgar retired after playing 86 Tests and scoring 5,347 runs with the help of 14 centuries and 23 half-centuries.
