Captain Virat Kohli received this unlikely compliment from an Australian lawmaker. The India and Australia cricket teams were meeting the Aussie Prime Minister at his official residence in Sydney on New Year's Day.
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00:00To the Indian guys, I just want to welcome you guys, probably a bit late, but welcome
00:17to Australia.
00:18I think the way, your spirit and the way you guys have played your cricket has been fantastic
00:22and it's certainly helped the Australian public fall back in love with cricket in the last
00:26few months.
00:27You've played a huge part in that, so thank you very much for playing the style of cricket
00:31you have and for being part of it and helping us build up our public.
00:41Thank you guys.
00:42Now it gives me great pleasure to introduce, I've got a total cricket crush on this guy,
00:50but Mr Bharat Kohli, known worldwide as the best batsman in the world and the passion
00:57he brings to the pitch and on the field, it's just so exciting to watch, even though I hope
01:03you lose.
01:07That was a lovely introduction.
01:09Indeed a great pleasure to be here, it's always an iconic afternoon and something that we
01:13really look forward to, so thank you very much for that.
01:18Just a little bit on us coming to Australia and playing here, I think it presents to us
01:24probably our biggest challenge in world cricket, purely because we're not only playing against
01:28the Australian side, as we all know, when you step into that stadium and you're walking
01:32the bat, the whole stadium wants to get you out.
01:37And that's something that you're up against and that's the greatness of the sports culture
01:40and the cricket culture here.
01:43So I just want to tell our boys that what we have done in these first three tests and
01:48the way we have been able to play is something that's very special and something that will
01:52stay with us for life.
01:54Speaking a bit on the Sydney test, for us, as the Prime Minister said, no pressure at all.
02:02It's something that, yeah.
02:06Dog agrees as well.