Over the last few days, former Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson has been engaging a lot of banters on Twitter. He had quite a few altercations on the micro-blogging website and recently he had a tussle with Indian media organization Times of India (TOI) where he accused the company of wrongly quoting him, surrounding Indian speedster Jasprit Bumrah. Previously, he also took a dig at Indian captain Virat Kohli.
In the ongoing third Test at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), the Indian team is having a strong position, having declared the innings for 443/. Mayank Agarwal scored 76 runs in his maiden international appearance after which skipper Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara put on a brilliant stand of more than 150 runs which has put them in a strong position.
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Pujara scored a century, but Kohli was dismissed on 82. Like always, the former didn’t play a shot out of anger and showed an unflustered mindset. Johnson was impressed by the knock. He took to Twitter and wrote, “Cheteshwar Pujara is Test playing Run Machine,”
https://twitter.com/MitchJohnson398/status/1077801154040352768
However, one of his supporters reminded him of the dominance, Kohli had over him when India played a four-match series against the Aussies back in 2014-15, the same series where MS Dhoni hung his boots from Test cricket. The fan replied and wrote, ”Still can’t forget the nightmare Virat Kohli gave u on the 2013-14 tour.”
Here is the supporter’s tweet
Still can't forget the nightmare #Virat gave u on 2013-14 tour 🤣
— Ab (@abu_rahu) December 26, 2018
Johnson had a brutal reply in store and he reverted, saying that India lost the series 2-0. “What nightmare was that? I think he had the nightmares after we won that series.” Kohli was the second highest run-getter of that series after Steve Smith. The 30-year-old hit four centuries as well.
Here is Johnson’s reply:
https://twitter.com/MitchJohnson398/status/1077815936185290752
Meanwhile, another fan took a dig at Johnson, saying that the Aussies won because of the home conditions. The fan wrote, “You won because it was the conditions you were used to but Virat irrespective of home support hit centuries that’s a true nightmare.”
Here is the second fan-tweet:
https://twitter.com/KhalfaySaif/status/1077824535183978496
Johnson wasn’t ready to give up and he said that the only thing mattered to him was Australia’s win the series. He wrote: “Good excuse Yes Australia won, no buts. No@nightmares for me or any other Aussies player that series because what matters the most is that we won, simple.”
Here is Johnson’s last tweet
https://twitter.com/MitchJohnson398/status/1077825131949391872
