Coach Shastri's trolling is agenda driven, feels captain Kohli

Virat Kohli on Saturday termed the relentless trolling of Ravi Shastri as "agenda driven", saying the India coach is least affected by perception that he is the captain's yes man.

Get up, face the fast bowlers with "courage" and "without helmet", average 41 as an opener -- Kohli mentioned all that Shastri did as a player in his scathing riposte to the current coach's critics.

"I think most of these things are agenda driven and I don't know whose, why, what for, but to accept lies in that manner, it couldn't be anything but agenda driven," Kohli told India Today on its special show 'Inspiration'.

"... In Ravi bhai's case, luckily, he is a person that doesn't care at all."
"He is absolutely chilled out, he says our only focus is how we can be the best team of all time. I think these petty things on the outside, they don't matter at all to him."
"I think full credit has to go to them to these guys that they have been able to create this aura around them because of that friendship that belief and the intent being in the right place."
"For me those things matter more than someone having absolute unreal natural ability, which is (Lionel) Messi, so I am in awe of Ronaldo."