The War In The Air

GH watches Virat take on the world and almost succeed

Roars versus Boos: who would win? As Virat Kohli stepped over the rope after tea today, the maelstrom of noise must have been unlike anything he had experienced before. Or any of us for that matter.

Even during a game of football, cheers and jeers at least alternate; now the sense was of competing fronts of empurpled people each trying to crowd the other out of the air, determined not to yield.