Netherlands cricketer Wesley Barresi has been around the national cricket scene for the last decade and is currently in the squad for the Cricket World Cup 2023 who was also in the 2011 team. (Scorecard | Live Streaming | Full Coverage)
Barresi recently revealed a memory from the 2011 tournament wherein he gave a send-off to a young Virat Kohli after the latter was dismissed cheaply. Barresi told Kohli that "we'll never see or hear from you again".
However, Barresi's comment did not age well as Kohli went on to become one of India's top batter and the Dutch player saw the lighter side of the incident.
"Maybe I got slightly cocky that night, but looking at that Indian team, they had superstars galore, and Kohli was the youngster, the timing was perfect to hand out a bit of stick. He certainly proved us wrong."
"It was all part of the moment, and we were fired up. We had them on the ropes, they were three or four down, so we felt like we were in the game a little. It was an excellent opportunity to knock India over in India. The atmosphere and everything that was going on spurred us on a bit, and we might have gotten ahead of ourselves," he said during an interaction with Cricbuzz.
Talking about Netherlands, they lost their first game against Pakistan by 81 runs. Their second game at the World Cup 2023 was against New Zealand.
