New Delhi, March 4 -- Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed faced a backlash over her now-deleted post on X questioning India cricket team captain Rohit Sharma's fitness. While the row is fresh, Mohamed's old social media post on batter Virat Kohli has resurfaced on the internet.

"Virat Kohli plays a British invented game, makes crores from endorsing foreign brands, got married in Italy, names Hershelle Gibbs his favorite cricketer and Angelique Kerber the best tennis player, but tells those who love foreign batsmen to leave India," Mohamed had said in a post on X on November 2018.

The Congress leader's comments were in response to an incident in which Kohli found himself in fresh controversy. Video footage on social media showed the then...