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Virat Kohli, the star Indian batter is known to be one of the toughest characters to go up against when he is in full flow with the bat and many bowlers around the world know that provoking him on the field is the last thing one should do during a match.

Kohli is one of the finest batters of this generation and has maintained his image as a consistent performer across formats for almost a decade now.

Kohli, who loves playing against Australia, recalled an instance in a viral video featuring former pacer Mitchell Johnson.

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The former Indian captain shared an anecdote of India's tour of Australia in 2014 with both Kohli and Johnson being at the top of their game during that time.

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Kohli and Johnson were up against each other and had a tussle as well in between with both trying to get under each other's skin.

"During the first match of the tour, the very first ball of Johnson hit me on the head. Back then at first, it was complete disbelief. For 60 days I had been visualising that I'd play like this and that, but there was a complete change of plans after that blow. It was a heavy blow and my vision started dropping as my left eye started swelling, but I did not notice it back then," Virat Kohli was heard saying in the viral video.

 

Check out the viral video of Virat Kohli talking about battle against Mitchell Johnson:

"And what happened at lunch was that, these are the things I feel thankful for, there were basically two options, fight or flight. And my reaction was obviously one that went, how dare he hit me on the head?

"Mene kaha isko mein itna maarunga iss series mein (I said I'll smack him around in the series and that is what I did," Kohli revealed.

Notably, Kohli was the stand-in captain of the Indian team in the first game in the absence of Dhoni, who returned to the side in the second and third matches.

However, Kohli got the full-time Test captaincy after Dhoni retired from the format during that tour.

The star batter ended up as the top-scorer for India in that four-match Test series with 692 runs to his name only behind Steve Smith's tally of 769.