Virat Kohli is undoubtedly one of the best batters across all formats of the game. He has broken as well as made, many records and people from all over the world have huge expectations from him, whenever he comes on the field to play. Talking about his incredible professional career, Kohli has smashed a total of 70 international tons. He initially started off his journey by playing professional cricket for his domestic team i.e., Delhi. Pradeep Sangwan, who played for Gujarat Titans in IPL 2022, was also one of the former teammates of King Kohli in the Delhi Team.
Recently, Sangwan has revealed a prank incident which was pulled on Kohli during his U17 days in cricket. This event happened during Delhi had to take on Punjab in an U17 match. Sangwan mentioned that Virat, during his salad days, was quite emotional considering his cricketing career. “We were playing in an U17 match in Punjab. He (Kohli) hadn’t been scoring big in the past 2-3 innings. We had a coach named Ajit Chaudhary who used to call him ‘Cheeku’. Virat was the main player of our team, and Ajit sir funnily suggested, ‘let’s tell him he’ll not play in the next match’. We all joined in on the prank.”
Pradeep Sangwan recalled Virat phone-calling his childhood coach; Rajkumar Sir after Ajit Chaudhary announced the Delhi squad for their next match. “In the team meeting, sir didn’t announce Virat’s name. He went to his room and started crying! He phone-called sir and said ‘I’ve scored a 200 and a 250’…. he had scored big in that season, to be honest. It’s just that he didn’t get enough runs in the past 2-3 innings. He got so emotional he even phone-called Rajkumar sir.”
Virat Kohli was very upset with the fact that he wasn’t selected for the next match and he told Sangwan that there’s no point for him to even sleep if he can’t play. “Then, he came to me and asked, ‘Tell me Sangwan, what’s wrong? I’ve scored so many runs this season.’ I told him, ‘Yes, yes, That’s very wrong!’ He wasn’t able to sleep all night as well. He said, ‘No, I don’t want to sleep. What’s the point of sleeping when I’m not playing?’ Then, I told him that he’s playing. It was all a prank.”
