‘I’ll absolutely knock you out’ – Dean Elgar reveals his first meeting with Virat Kohli

Former South Africa Test skipper Dean Elgar retired from international cricket early this month. After the two-match Test series against India, he bid adieu to the game at the highest level. Later this year, Elgar will play in the County Cricket. Meanwhile, in a podcast, the left-hander revealed his first conversation with former India skipper Virat Kohli.

By the looks of the podcast, it seemed that this conversation happened during the South Africa tour of India 2015.

“In India…Those wickets were jokes.”

“And I came into bat and I was actually like holding my own against Ashwin and what’s his name Jajeja… ja-ja-jajeja, (‘Jadeja’, said someone in the background) and Kohli, he like spat at me,” Elgar said.

“I said to him, ‘if you do that, I’ll f*****g *** you with this bat’,” Elgar claimed.

“Did he understand that word?” asked the podcast host referring to the beeped out word.

“Yes, he did because (AB) de Villiers was his teammate at RCB so he understood. I said ‘if you do that, I’ll absolutely knock you out’,” Elgar claimed.

AB de Villiers found out and scolded me: Dean Elgar

The former Proteas opening batter added that his former captain AB de Villiers told him not to fight with his RCB teammate.

“Anyway, so, realised that de Villiers found out what he did and went up to him and said ‘bud, why are you spitting at my teammate bud? That’s not on’ and two years later, he (Kohli) calls me aside playing (in) South Africa and said ‘can we go have a drink at the end of the series?”

“‘I want to just apologise for my actions’. Two years later in South Africa, he says he wants to apologise for what he did. We had a drink, (the) punchline is we drank till 3 am in the morning. This is when he used to drink, now he is obviously converted a bit,” Elgar added.