As former India skipper, switched to his vintage mode, the Boxing Day Test became the headline grabber for all the different reasons. Sam Konstas, who debuted for Australia with the Test, was shoulder bumped by Kohli and the gesture was not well received by the former Australia cricketers and the country's media left no stone unturned to make the veteran feel the heat.   

The issue was not let to simmer down thanks to the statement pouring from all over the globe and the Melbourne Cricket Ground crowd kept the gung-ho intact throughout the Test. As Australia won the Boxing Day Test, the focus shifted to the . On the Kohli-Konstas incident, Australia’s wicketkeeper-batter has revealed things are fair and square between the cricketers, unlike the external air.  

"I think I saw a photo of them shaking hands and a little tap on the back. Oh, it's Test Cricket. Yeah, I'm not 100% sure. But Sam didn't take it to heart," Carey said as quoted by TOI.  

The star India batter became the poster boy of the Australian newspaper after the incident. Some went to the extent of morphing his photograph as a clown with the headline reading the same word. Another cover page saw a pacifier morphed in his mouth and the move was not criticised by former India pacer, Irfan Pathan, who called out the media’s “double standards."

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"Australian newspapers, media and even some ex-cricketers are the definition of being two-faced. First, they go and call Virat Kohli the 'King', but the moment he shows some aggression, he is labelled in this way. Double standards," Pathan said on Star Sports.

"None of us supported the incident, but we left it to the officials. But here, first they'd call him the 'King' and then immediately call him a 'Joker' after that? You want to sell, you want to make cricket popular but at the expense of Virat Kohli's market value? We will not accept this," Pathan added.