‘Asked Kohli to marry me, got a bat instead’

New Delhi:The English cricketer Danielle Wyatt, who famously proposed marriage to Virat Kohli on Twitter in 2014, said she had to be content with a bat gifted her by the Indian star. And she intends to use this bat, which she says is a “beast”, in India during a T20I tri-series also involving Australia.
“I’m using Virat Kohli’s bat now,” Wyatt told a cricket website. In 2014, after she’d seen Kohli smash 72 against South Africa in the T20 World Cup, Danielle, then just short of 23 years of age, went online and asked Kohli to marry her. Later that year, when he toured England, Kohli gifted her a bat during a warm-up game between India and England in Derbyshire.
Of her proposal, she said: “Ten minutes later, I picked my phone up and I’ve got 1000s of favourites and retweets, it’s all over Indian news, they’re emailing my dad at home.”
“When we met, he said to me: ‘You can’t do things like that on Twitter! They take things seriously!’ I was like, ‘okay. Sorry!’”
Kohli gifted her one of his own bats, and she’s going to use it now after her bat with which she hit a T20I century broke. “The bat I hit the century with broke not long ago,” she said. “So now I’ll be using Virat’s.”