Virat Kohli Opens Up About Anushka Sharma’s Tea Controversy, Says She Is A Soft Target

From being blamed for her then boyfriend and now husband Virat Kohli’s bad performance on the cricket pitch to being trolled for being a part of the BCCI’s official Team India photo, Anushka Sharma has been in the eye of many a cricket storm. In fact, a while back ex cricketer Faroukh Engineer claimed that she was served tea by the Indian selectors during a match between India and Sri Lanka, an allegation she vehemently denied in a social media.

While husband Virat Kohli was silent at that time, he has finally opened up and talked about his wife being constantly pulled into such controversies. Virat said, “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. You want to mention something about the selectors do that, but why join her name with it.’

He further added, “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.”

Virat also spoke up about the constant allegations about Anushka receiving preferential treatment among the cricket fraternity and said, “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.”