5 of the worst fights from past India-Australia clashes

#1 Kohli’s wave of honour

Kohli showing the Aussie crowd what he thinks of them

Rifts between cricketers are pretty regular, but bouts between a player and the crowd isn’t quite a common story in the cricketing arena. Nonetheless, during India’s tour of Australia in 2012, the world saw a clash between Virat Kohli and the Aussie crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Sitting back and staying oblivious of external matters isn’t how Kohli plays the game and it wasn’t any different that day. The crowd went overboard with their celebrations and hurled abusive words at the current Indian skipper.

Kohli replied back at them by showing his middle finger and was later fined 50 percent of his match fees. Kohli admitted it as a wrongdoing on his part, but also mentioned that it’s hard to hold oneself back to abuses directed at one’s mother and sister.