Indian captain Virat Kohli on Saturday referred to his actress wife Anushka Sharma is a “soft target”, breaking his silence for the very first time on former player Farokh Engineer’s claim that she was served tea by one of the selectors during the ICC World Cup in July. The 81-year-old Engineer recently commented on the credentials of the five-member selection committee, led by MSK Prasad and comprising Sarandeep Singh, Jatin Paranjpe, Gagan Khoda and Devang Gandhi as he claimed that he saw one of them serve tea to Sharma during the World Cup in England.

“She came for one World Cup game against Sri Lanka and the family box and the selector box was different, and there was no selector in that box. She came with two friends. As I said, she is known, she’s been successful at a very high level so when people take her name, it gets noticed,” Kohli told India Today.

“You want to mention something about the selectors do that, but why join her name with it. When the lies are spoken so much all around, they start becoming truths. So you need to speak up at some stage and that’s exactly what happened recently,” he added.

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Anushka Sharma has often been accused of many unnecessary topics which obviously included the poor performance of Virat Kohli in the game.

“So much has been said about her and so much comes out about her. The value system that she has and her beliefs and the nature she has, it won’t allow her to go against rules and protocols. So I don’t know why people have wanted to sensationalise stories by taking her name because she’s a soft target. We both had been ignoring it for a while,” Kohli said.