'4 saal pehlay ki baat hai ye 2019 ki ab ni' - Fans react as Kevin Pietersen reckons Virat Kohli a 'wonderful player' of spin

Former England skipper Kevin Pietersen came up with some praising remarks for the former Indian skipper and the batting superstar, Virat Kohli. Pietersen felt that Virat Kohli is a very good player against the ‘spin’ bowling. Apart from that, he also talked about the mentality with which Virat Kohli bats and plays spin bowling.

“He is a wonderful player of spin, and you sort of understand it because they play spin off the back foot and have such beautiful wrists. You hardly ever see Virat running down, charging, and going all guns blazing, and he certainly doesn’t sweep, reverse sweep. I mean, you can watch him bat. Mentally, you can see him batting there, so you can sort of understand that,” said Pietersen to Sky Sports.

Although a section of cricket fans took this statement from Kevin Pietersen for Virat Kohli to troll the latter on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Fans came up with some hilarious and interesting reactions recalling some of Virat Kohli’s failures against the spin bowlers.

Here’s how fans reacted to Kevin Pietersen’s statement for Virat Kohli:

Great KP. Iss ko kahte hain - bheegaa bheegaa ke maar naa . so many people didn't fathom that's another entertaining thing 😜

— Anupam Jha (@OftenrisingAnu) June 20, 2023

Kuch nahi bass Kohli ko thareef karo aur pr badao 🫡

— MSD (@KevinTejas1) June 20, 2023

Dismissed 29 times in his last 40 games vs spin 😂😂

— 🐐 (@ItsHitmanERA) June 20, 2023

4 saal pehlay ki baat hai ye 2019 ki ab ni

— nauman 09 (@09alisaab) June 20, 2023

Taarif kar raha hai ye bezzti bhrwe 😡😭

— हर्षित (@Italymeraghar) June 20, 2023

Has KP forgotten the last few years where Kohli has been dreadful against Spin?

Awesome player KP was, horrible pundit tho

— Yash Runwal (@duddalyash) June 20, 2023

He is surely being sarcastic here 😭😭

— Em! (@Insane__Emi) June 20, 2023

Ipl mein dikh gya tha Against spin 😂

— Jàwád Bûtt (@JwdBtt122820) June 20, 2023

Other than Kevin Pietersen, the former Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara also praised Virat Kohli for his batting technique. Sangakkara lavished praise on Kohli for the latter’s risk-free approach while playing in the high-pressure games.

“He is also a kind of IPL mode, isn’t it? A lot of these players are very happy step-hitting from the crease. So, they don’t allow bowlers to bowl on a length, so the old art of having to use your feet against spin is gone, or they don’t do it anymore. You drop down and work a single. No, just stay in the crease and hit it out of the park. That’s true,” said Sangakkara to Sky Sports during the same discussion alongside Kevin Pietersen.