Even as the dust is settling down on the intensely fought controversial India-Australia Test series, a remark by former Australian cricketer Ed Cowan threatens to further damage the 'friendship' between the two rival teams.
Speaking on Fox Sports' new podcast - The Stack Report - the former Aussie Test batsman recalled his run-in with Virat Kohli.
"I’m a huge fan of his cricket. Don’t get me wrong he’s a phenomenal cricketer,” said Cowan.
“I had a little bit of a run-in that was inappropriate when he toured Australia and the umpire had to intervene.
“We forget that English isn’t their first language. It’s very easy to sit back and say as a player they’re barking something at me that is inappropriate when we don’t try and converse with them in Hindi.
“There’s always going to be niggles around misinterpretation of what’s said and what isn’t said on the field.
“I had a very sick Mum during one of those series and he said something that was inappropriate.
“Why I make the point of ‘lost in translation’, he said something that was highly inappropriate. A personal matter that was highly sensitive. Highly inappropriate. But he didn’t realise that he’d overstepped the mark until the umpire came over and said — ‘Virat that’s overstepped the mark’ — and once that was said, he took a step back and apologised.
"But, there was a moment I wanted to pick up the stump and stab him."
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