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XtraTime Web Desk: India skipper Virat Kohli is well known of scoring big hundreds when the team needed it the most. He is well known as a very aggressive captain on the field who never back down from any challenges. Former Pakistan skipper Captain Rashid Latif, in a video, recalled two instances from Kohli’s career, to explain why bowlers should not mess with the Indian skipper during a match. While talking in a Youtube video, Latif stated talked about India’s Test series in Australia in 2014. In that Test series MS Dhoni took his retirement after the third Test, in the first two test India lost and the third ended in a draw. Dhoni was injured for the first Test, and Kohli was made the stand-in captain for the match. After Dhoni announced retirement, Kohli was again made the stand-in captain for the 4th Test. “There are some players you don’t mess with. We had Javed bhai, Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar. Today, Virat Kohli is one such player,” he added. Latif further recalled India’s T20I series against West Indies last year, in which Kohli imitated right-arm seamer Kesrick Williams’ “notebook celebrations” after hitting the bowler for a six. Williams had given his signature send-off to the Indian captain back in 2017 in a T20I match in Jamaica, and Kohli admitted, he gave a reply, though insisted that it was in good spirits. “Recently, in a T20I match against West Indies, a left-arm pacer (actually, it was a right-arm pacer Kesrick Williams) said some words to him. Even though, Kohli does not score too many runs in T20Is, but he went on to play a great innings in that match. There are certain players you don’t mess with during a match,” Latif said. Kohli has played 86 Tests, 248 ODIs, and 82 T20Is in his career. The right-hander has amassed 7,240 Test runs, 11,867 ODI runs and 2,794 T20I runs.