Pakistan pacer Sohail Khan, who has played nine Tests, 12 ODIs and five T20Is, recounted an altercation with Virat Kohli during a 2015 World Cup match.
Sohail, who played his last match for Pakistan in 2017, said that Kohli tried to intimidate him during the game. In that match, Sohail picked 5/55, including the wickets of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni and Ajinkya Rahane. Pakistan dismissed India for 300/7 but managed only 224 in the chase.
“When I walked out to bat, Virat came and told me ‘aap cricket mein abhi aaye hain. And itni baatein karte ho (You’ve just arrived and you speak so much). I said ‘Beta jab tu Under-19 khel raha tha na, tera baap Test cricketer tha’ (Son, when you were playing Under-19 for India, your father [referring to himself] was a Test player). I was a Test cricketer back then. I had played Test matches in 2006-07. Then in between I suffered a knee injury which forced me out of action. That’s how I said it. Then Misbah intervened and he got angry at me. He asked me to keep quiet,” Sohail said on a YouTube video by Nadir Ali.
“Dhoni came and told him ‘Side pe ho jao, purana chawal hai yeh (Step aside, he is experienced). You don’t know him.”
