Melbourne: His mohawk hairdo caught the eye as much as his wide range of shots, but Virat Kohli was focus personified while feasting on the spinners at the nets here today, as India geared up to take on a traditionally pace-heavy South Africa in their next cricket World Cup match.

Although it is not clear whether the South African team management team would play either leg-spinner Imran Tahir or left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso in their playing XI, the Indian top-order batting, led by premier batsman Kohli, had a field day against spinners, rather than the pacers, at the nets.