Fans Remind Virat Kohli Of MS Dhoni's Decision Of Skipping Ziva's Birth, Question Him For 'Choosing Family Over Country'

India captain Virat Kohli will miss three Tests of the upcoming four-match series four Tests in Australia to be at the birth of his first child. The BCCI confirmed the news on Monday, stating that it has granted paternity leave to the batsman. The 32-year old will leave Australia for India after playing the first Test in Adelaide.

Prior to that, he will also lead the team in the ODI and the T20I series. India are scheduled to play three ODIs and as many T20Is against Australia before the teams lock horns in the much-anticipated Border-Gavaskar series.

Anushka Sharma is due to give birth in January and thus Virat Kohli has decided to return to India right after the first Test ends. He is also unlikely to return for the later Tests because of the strict quarantine rules. Anyone arriving in Australia must quarantine for 14 days, making it impractical for the India captain to rejoin the squad.

Fans unhappy with Virat Kohli:

Virat Kohli’s decision to skip three Tests in Australia has not gone down well with some fans. As soon as BCCI confirmed the news, the fans took to Twitter to slam the India skipper for choosing his family over ‘national duty’. They were quick to remind him of what MS Dhoni did in 2015 while leading India in a World Cup in Australia when his wife Sakshi was expecting their first child.

https://twitter.com/Omg_its_Omgg/status/1325810136682651650

It was tough to be away from my daughter Ziva when she was born: MS Dhoni (He was on Australia Tour )
Now Virat is taking paternity leave. He will be missing last three test matches.
For player like Sachin and Dhoni it was national duty and for VK it's business.

— Somesh Anand (@cybertron0002) November 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/restoringindiaa/status/1325762886656950273

It's kholi's personal.But still i can remember when Ziva was born Dhoni was in australia and he said "I am on national duty everything else should wait" Respect @msdhoni ? -By Dhoni hater ? https://t.co/nm0INIbYvG

— Ctrl C + Ctrl V (@thalapathy_modi) November 9, 2020

Though I respect Virat Kohli and his paternity leave is very much genuine and he deserves it..

And that's why MS Dhoni becomes more special because his first priority was his Nation when Ziva was born.
It takes a lot of courage to become The MS Dhoni..!!#AUSvIND

— vicky thube (@vickythube6) November 9, 2020

Ziva Dhoni was born on 6th February, 2015. World cup 2015 for India started on February 15, 2015. There were 10 days in between. Just putting this fact out there

— mvrkguy (@mvrkguy) November 9, 2020

I am not disrespecting Virat Kohli at all..He is the pride of our nation and he deserves everything he got.

I am just admiring MS Dhoni that he was not there when Ziva was born and I think MS Dhoni deserves the appreciation for this..!!

— Ujjwal Thakur (@ashutosh5897_v) November 9, 2020

Just heard Kohli won't take part in 3 of 4 test matches against the aussies due to 'Paternity leave'. We will play without our best test batsman.

Then we had dhoni who didn't come back to India during the 2015 wc when ziva was born. Priorities matter. #INDvAUS #INDvsAUS

— Varun Garg ?? (@IamV_Garg) November 9, 2020

Nothing imp than national duty, yet again Kohli proved he is not a leader

— Sunil Kalyan (@sunilguts) November 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/Bungomacha/status/1325822635595366401?

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