India’s star batsman and former captain Virat Kohli recently shared a funny anecdote from his early days in the Indian cricket team, including his first meeting with the great Sachin Tendulkar. recently Kohli narrated this story during an event, in which he told that when he met the God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar for the first time, a prank was played on him.

Actually, this incident happened in the year 2008, when during the ODI series against England, other Indian cricketers had played a funny prank on Virat. Virat Kohli once fell at the feet of Sachin Tendulkar to salute him, but it was actually a prank.

Virat Kohli narrated a funny story related to Sachin Tendulkar

Virat said, “These things are probably from the England team’s tour of India, which happened before the attacks on Taj Hotel in 2008. I had debuted for India against Sri Lanka, but Sachin Tendulkar had withdrawn his name from that series. I was hoping that I would get an opportunity to play with Sachin in the next series.”

Virat Kohli further said, “When I met Sachin for the first time, I fell at his feet. Sachin sir was retreating, but I too was not able to say anything. I told him, ‘I was told that all this had to be done. That’s why I’m doing it. I later came to know that it was a prank.

Irfan Pathan, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh were also involved in it. Munaf Patel was also a part of this funny incident, who used to instigate other players to do such things. All of them together had framed me.”

Virat Kohli talking about the prank when he meets Sachin Tendulkar for the first time.

– He said “Main pair main gir gaya Sachin Paaji ke”.pic.twitter.com/ocxbbvBinn

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Virat Kohli was recently seen playing in the series against New Zealand. He was a complete flop with the bat in this series. Now he will be seen playing in the series against Australia, where fans are expecting big innings from his bat.