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Virat Kohli picks his favourite Sachin Tendulkar innings - Check out!

Virat Kohli picks his favourite Sachin Tendulkar innings. Check out! Kohli selected this during a chat with Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri

Virat Kohli picks his favourite Sachin Tendulkar innings. Check out!

Bengaluru, May 18: On more than one occasion, Virat Kohli has revealed his admiration for batting legend Sachin Tendulkar. The Indian captain in a chat with his football counterpart Sunil Chhetri picked a Tendulkar innings that he wished to have played.

It came as little surprise when Kohli picked 'The Desert Storm' of Tendulkar in 1998.

"The one knock in international cricket you wished you had played?" Chhetri asked. "The 1998 desert storm," Kohli answered straight away.

"Which one, the first one in the semi-final or the final?" Chhetri asked. "The first one where we qualified for the final," said Kohli.

Tendulkar tore into Australia with a 131-ball 143 to power India to the title clash of the Coca Cola Cup, though India had lost that match. But another hundred by Tendulkar in the final against Australia helped India win the title.

Kohli also remembered how Shane Warne made him look like a school boy in the IPL 2009. The Australian leg-spin legend was captaining Rajasthan Royals and Kohli was playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

"I played against Shane Warne and he made me look like a fool in IPL 2009. Then there was a game in Rajasthan in 2011 and he was the captain, I played decent there... didn't hit him and he didn't get me out. We won the match and I remained unbeaten," Kohli said.

And Kohli also remembered the advice Warne gave to him: Never speak to bowlers. However, Kohli added rather sheepishly that he hardly followed the words as he always enjoyed a battle with the bowlers on the field.

"You know that is when he told me something after the game that 'never bite back.. never say something back to the bowler'. You know obviously I didn't listen because meri gaadi usi se chalti hai. Maine kaha chalne do (My game thrives because of the needle and I never changed it)," Kohli said.

Story first published: Monday, May 18, 2020, 12:10 [IST]
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