Outside India, Virat Kohli holds the bitter-sweet honour of probably being the most admired and disliked contemporary cricketer. Without doubt, this is the case in Australia; we never expected David Warner to be supplanted for this dubious honour.

For the first part of his career, the negative vibes directed at Kohli were indeed a backhanded compliment. Australians admired his genius and his refusal to back down from a fight, a grudging concession that he was almost a true-blue Aussie (in an ultimate symbol of arrogance, is this meant to be the ultimate compliment?).