{"id":237498,"date":"2025-10-24T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237498\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:08:20","slug":"australian-xavier-bartlett-cops-instagram-abuse-after-dismissing-virat-kohli-in-odi-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237498\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Xavier Bartlett cops Instagram abuse after dismissing Virat Kohli in ODI win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian<\/a> fast bowler Xavier Bartlett has had his Instagram swarmed by thousands of angry Indian cricket fans, following his dismissal of Virat Kohli<\/a> during the second ODI win in Adelaide. <\/p>\n

The 26-year-old South Australian trapped Kohli LBW for a duck<\/a>. He considered a DRS appeal before walking off for a second straight game without a run.<\/p>\n

Bartlett celebrated with his teammates, but did nothing that would raise expectations that he would be abused.<\/p>\n

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\"Xavier<\/p>\n

Xavier Bartlett of Australia celebrates the wicket of Virat Kohli.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The fast bowler has many posts on Instagram, most with between 30 and 100 comments.<\/p>\n

However, his most recent post, which was actually made on August 1 about his time overseas playing cricket in the IPL, for Australia and holidaying, has 4500 comments.<\/p>\n

Quite a few are gifs of Kohli and most are very clearly from Indian cricket fans.<\/p>\n

“Virat is your father,” reads one. “Virat is your father brother next match you will be finished (heart emoji) mark my words (angry face emoji),” reads another.<\/p>\n

One simply repeats the words “Virat Kohli” 30 times.<\/p>\n

One sane person posted: “I’m Indian, but Virat’s fanbase is the most ridiculous fanbase in the world..!!”. Another similarly added: “Kohli would be embarrassed by the so called Indian fans carrying on”.<\/p>\n

Bartlett took three wickets for 39 runs in the win, bringing down Kohli, Shubman Gill and Washington Sundar.<\/p>\n

The abuse is even more peculiar, given Bartlett sung the former Indian captain’s praises after the match.<\/p>\n

“Probably one of the best white-ball players of all time,” he told Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n

“Lucky to get him, I tried to bowl an out-swinger, and it nipped back. Probably a bit of pure luck, but nice to see the back of him early.”<\/p>\n

\"Virat<\/p>\n

Virat Kohli walks off the Adelaide Oval.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Mitchell Starc<\/a>, who dismissed the Indian great in the first match of the series, found his Instagram similarly flooded, but not to the same extent.<\/p>\n

Kohli will hope to bounce back in the third ODI in Sydney on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He has spoken about his aim to stick with 50-over cricket through to the 2027 World Cup, despite retiring from T20 and Test cricket.<\/p>\n

However a pair of ducks in Australia would be hitting his confidence hard, with a full calendar year of cricket to navigate before the World Cup comes into view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian fast bowler Xavier Bartlett has had his Instagram swarmed by thousands of angry Indian cricket fans, following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-237498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}