Arrest Kohli

Virat Kohli of India during the 2021 Betway 1st Test match between South Africa and India on the 26 December 2021 at the SuperSport Park, Pretoria Photo: Muzi Ntombela/BackpagePix

Arrest Kohli: Cricket is life and death in India

Arrest Kohli has been trending after a drunken argument between two cricket fans reportedly ended in murder.

Arrest Kohli

Virat Kohli of India during the 2021 Betway 1st Test match between South Africa and India on the 26 December 2021 at the SuperSport Park, Pretoria Photo: Muzi Ntombela/BackpagePix

Arrest Kohli has been trending after a drunken argument between two cricket fans reportedly ended in murder.

According to various reports coming out of India, a 21-year-old fan of former India skipper Virat Kohli murdered his friend for mocking the beloved cricketer.

The fan is believed to have become incensed by the suggestion that current India captain Rohit Sharma was a better cricketer than Kohli, who holds a number of national and international records.

Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma was named India’s Test captain, one of the highest-pressure jobs in world sport, taking over from Virat Kohli. Photo: Money SHARMA / AFP

The relationship between Rohit and Virat is known to be a friendly one despite occasional rivalries in domestic cricket and the IPL.

Kohli cuts an intense figure on the pitch but is by all accounts a friendly and genial man away from it even sharing friendships with global sporting stars like Novak Djokovic.

Sadly one fan’s love for Kohli has gone a bit too far as Police in the Tamil Nadu region of India confirmed that S Dharmaraj has been accused of killing 24-year-old P Vignesh with both parties intoxicated at the time of the incident.

“Both had consumed liquor. As per the initial investigation, Vignesh was supporting Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League (IPL) while Dharmaraj was a Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) supporter,” Keelapalur police said.

“During the course of their debate, Vignesh had allegedly mocked RCB and Virat Kohli. 

“Vignesh had the habit of body shaming Dharmaraj, who was a stammerer. 

“On that day he had made some remarks comparing the RCB team to the speaking difficulty of Dharmaraj. 

“This infuriated Dharmaraj who attacked Vignesh with a bottle and later hit him with a cricket bat on the head. Dharmaraj soon fled the spot,” officials said.

Cricket is a national obsession in India, heaping enormous pressure on everyone involved in the game, and social media is often awash with fans bashing players, coaches and figures in the mainstream media over performances or even views and opinions.

Virat Kohli is of course in no way liable for the events that have transpired and is currently in Australia preparing for the T20 World Cup with the rest of the India squad.

It is unclear where the Arrest Kohli trend started but it seems that Twitter trolls are to blame. And this is why we can’t have nice things.

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