Dear Virat Kohli,
The heat has probably started subsiding in the suburbs of where you fought against Gautam Gambhir. Well, why not, after all you wear your heart on the sleeve and that is how one should be. Not mincing words, not hoping to pull your punches back and going head on against each other, two champions of the sport, spilling it out in front of the world. What else was remaining to see?
VK, you know this or not, you are being touted to be the successor of Sachin Tendulkar in Indian cricket. And you are the only one close enough to try and parallel the icon’s record. This probably won’t be easy considering you may already be heading into your twilight but again cricket is a funny game and you are a master of scoring runs from almost thin air.
Virat Kohli, you know Sachin Tendulkar wasn’t about just runs. The man himself was a lot bigger than the sport. When Brett Lee knocked him down with a nasty bouncer, he got back up, handed over the ball to Lee and smashed him for three fours in the same over.
When Australia came to sledge him, he would remain shut and then smack the bowlers into all corners of the park. When Shoaib Akhtar would try every possible technique up his sleeve to get into the skin of the Master Blaster, the cherry would keep on flying without a single word on his lips. That was Sachin Tendulkar. A personality that towered across the sport in the brightest of livery.
VK, it is okay to go all guns blazing when you are up against a different nation and why not? After all, India is here to dominate the sport of cricket. But when you do this against a fellow Indian cricketer and that too with the one who paired with you in helping India stabilize their ship in the 2011 World Cup finale, the one who gave you his Player of the Match award, against him, maybe cricket deserves better from you.
VK, I am your crazy fan and I have fought with my friends just because they would say anything about you. But this is me being hurt that you had to replicate what Gauti did. Maybe a class act could have been also up for display where you walked away with the bragging rights. People look up to you Virat and believe this or not but you are an idol for gazillion cricket fans. Don’t make this a show of unnecessary aggression. You are better and higher than that.
Yours sincerely,
A hurt cricket fan.