Star India batter Virat Kohli’s former teammate for India and Delhi, Ishant Sharma, recently recalled a funny memory involving the legendary batter after his recent Test retirement. However, Kohli shockingly announced his Test retirement on Monday, May 12 as well.

Recalling an incident with Kohli, Ishant told Star Sports’ Press Room on Saturday: “When our India debut came, the name of the team came…he kicked me and said, your name has come. He said, will you really play for India? I said, brother, let me sleep. At the end of the day, you have spent a lot of time with him. You know him in and out. You know where he has come from, how he is and how he is not.”

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“Imagine, your brother has reached such heights. Everyone is thinking that he is great. But you will see that at the end of the day, he is a human being. When we meet, we never talk about how we played so many Test matches. We never talk about it. We talk about funny jokes. This is happening, that is happening, look at this, look at that. Funny jokes,” he further added.

He also said that while Virat Kohli has become one of the best players of world cricket, their bonding will never change as well.

“I think Virat Kohli (the star) is for outside people. I can’t see him like that because we played in the U-17s. He is a childhood friend to me. When we were in the U-19s, we used to count how much money we had. We used to eat food. When we used to go to the U-19s, we used to save our TAs and take them with us. So, Virat Kohli is different for everyone. He is different for me,” Ishant Sharma concluded.