India Test skipper Virat Kohli has been phenomenal despite "all the noise around him", head coach Rahul Dravid said, lending support to the superstar batter who is locked in a war of words with the BCCI over the way his white-ball captaincy tenure ended.

"Virat has been phenomenal over the last 20 days. The way he has trained and prepared, the way he has connected with the group has been fantastic in spite of all the noise around him," Dravid said on the eve of the second Test against South Africa.