Steve Smith appreciated Kohli’s heartwarming gesture to the crowd in their encounter at the World Cup in June 2019. While the India vs. Australia match was going on in the Oval, fans were booing over the former Australian captain. Then Former Indian captain Virat Kohli stood up for Smith and apologised to him on behalf of the crowd.
The ball-tampering scandal:
In March 2018, on the third day of the third test against South Africa in the 43rd over of South Africa’s second innings, Cameron Bancroft was shown on the ground appearing to rub the ball with a small yellow object. After Bancroft realized that he had been seen, he hid the object in his trousers. Steve Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft were caught for that. After five days of investigation, it was found to be a sandpaper that cricketers use to maintain their bats. Smith also admitted that the plan was made during the lunch break. After that, they got banned for one year from cricket.
The scenario of India vs. Australia in 2019 World Cup:
During the match Smith was fielding at the third man, then the fans started chanting ‘cheater, cheater’. After the end of this, the former Indian skipper signals to the crowd to stop this misbehavior. Which is undoubtedly a heartwarming gesture by him. After that Smith shook hands with Kohli and thanked him.
In a press conference, Virat said,” I just felt for him and I told him, I’m sorry on behalf of the crowd because I have seen that happen in a few earlier games as well.” Later Kohli added,” Just because there are so many Indian fans here, I just didn’t want them to set a bad example, to be honest, because he didn’t do anything to be booed in my opinion. He is just playing cricket.”
Smith stated,” It was a very nice moment from Kohli in the 2019 World Cup, the crowd was booing me and he told the crowd to just support him, What is wrong with him? That was great from Virat, really appreciate it.” Cricket is not just a game it is emotion this incident is a true example of that.
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