XtraTime Web Desk: In a recent interview South Africa star pacer Kagiso Rabada termed India skipper Virat Kohli as “immature”.
Rabada started thinking like this after he and Kohli had a war of words when Royal Challengers Bangalore & Delhi Capitals faced each other during the recently concluded Indian Premier League.
“I was just thinking about the game plan, really, but Virat, he hit me for a boundary and then he had a word. And then when you give it back to him, he gets angry. I don’t get the guy. Maybe he does it because it gets him going, but that comes across as very immature for me. He is a phenomenal player but he can’t take the abuse,” Rabada said in an interview with ESPNCricinfo.
“You have to think about what you are going to do, because the wicket was good. All it was was a verbal fight. Something like that will not distract me. If anything, it is just going to wake me up to hit my areas a lot more consistently,” Rabada added.
Rabada also said that on thought about the incident on his way back form the match and wondered if being angry is what makes him the player he is.
“But later that evening, on the bus back to the hotel, I asked myself: ‘That guy [Kohli] always seems to be angry on the field. Is he really angry?’ Then I thought to myself what it would take for me to become really, really angry. That is going to happen very few and far times in between. And becoming angry like that – is that what gets him to play well? Do you know what I am saying? I can’t psyche myself to be angry,” Rabada said.