‘Asked Kohli to marry me, got a bat instead’

New Delhi, march 13

The English cricketer Danielle Wyatt, who famously proposed marriage to Virat Kohli on Twitter in 2014, said she had to be content with a bat gifted her by the Indian star. And she intends to use this bat, which she says is a “beast”, in India during a T20I tri-series also involving Australia.

“I’m using Virat Kohli’s bat now,” Wyatt told a cricket website. In 2014, after she’d seen Kohli smash 72 against South Africa in the T20 World Cup, Danielle, then just short of 23 years of age, went online and asked Kohli to marry her. Later that year, when he toured England, Kohli gifted her a bat during a warm-up game between India and England in Derbyshire.

Of her proposal, she said: “Ten minutes later, I picked my phone up and I’ve got 1000s of favourites and retweets, it’s all over Indian news, they’re emailing my dad at home.”

“When we met, he said to me: ‘You can’t do things like that on Twitter! They take things seriously!’ I was like, ‘okay. Sorry!’”

Kohli gifted her one of his own bats, and she’s going to use it now after her bat with which she hit a T20I century broke. “The bat I hit the century with broke not long ago,” she said. “So now I’ll be using Virat’s.” — Agencies

Kohli recognises the need to manage his workload

Mumbai: India skipper Virat Kohli today said that it was time he started listening to his body and managed his workload going forward in his career. "Physically I had a few niggles, I am just getting over thos,”  said Kohli, who was rested for the tri-nation T20 series in Sri Lanka. “The workload has started to take a toll. I have to be very careful about how I go forward with my body, my mind, my cricket," he added.

Kohli said the break was helping him recover. "Times like these are very important going ahead. I am totally enjoying it. I do not even have an inch of me missing out on anything because my body really needed this. Although I am keeping a track of the games, I do not watch matches right now.”

"And when I am done with this period, I will be coming out fresh. I will be mentally in a better place on the field. I have been on the road for a long, long time," Kohli said.

"I can sit and not move for hours. As much as energy I show on the field, when I get time at home, I can be a total vegetable. I can be very annoying because I do not move at all," he added. — PTI