Pat Cummins Comes Clean About His Statement on Virat Kohli, Says ‘Wishful Thinking, Not a Challenge’

A few days ago, pacer Pat Cummins predicted that the Indian captain Virat Kohli won’t be scoring a century as the team will lock horns with Australian in November 2018.  Pat Cummins in an interview last week had said, “My brave, bold prediction; I'd say I think Virat Kohli is not going to get a hundred and we're going to knock them off over here.”

Now pacer has clarified his comments to cricket.com.au  and said, “I was surprised by the traction the comments I made about Virat got. I was almost trying to do the opposite to the way they were perceived. I was trying to pay him a huge compliment and say that my big wish list for the summer was he doesn't score a hundred. He's obviously so important to the team and is such a gun batsman, so him not scoring runs would go a long way to helping us win. But I certainly didn't mean to say he's no good because I couldn't hold him in higher regard.”

“Bruce McAvaney just asked me what my big prediction was that I'd like to see for the summer. And I just basically said 'I'd love to see Virat Kohli not make a hundred because he's a really good player', The chances are he's going to score a hundred against us again sometime and we'll be doing everything in our power to try and stop that. It was just off the cuff. It was a pretty relaxed interview to say I'd love for him not to score runs, like I'd love any international player to not score runs against us," he further said.

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