At the end of the 11th over of Australia’s second innings on the third day of the fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Virat Kohli was engaged in a battle with the Australian fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), gesturing that there is no sandpaper in his pockets or inside his pants. The gesture was in a reference to the infamous sandpaper incident where Australia were caught tampering with the ball in 2018 in Cape Town against South Africa. Kohli turned his pockets inside out to show that they were empty. He then stretched the waistband of his pants to show that he had nothing inside either in a reference to Cameron Bancroft’s act of hiding a piece of sandpaper in his underwear. “What is that about?”#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/HwNZXhKW1S — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 5, 2025 Interestingly, back in 2019 Virat Kohli was given the ICC’s Spirit of Cricket award for his actions during the ODI World Cup match between India and Australia at The Oval. The then Indian captain urged fans not to boo Steve Smith while the …