Canberra: Australian cricketers can't do without sledging the opposition and they must be given a fitting retort, feels the usually aggressive Virat Kohli who walked his talk by giving it back to James Faulkner in the third ODI at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


Virat Kohli during a practice session in Brisbane last week. Pic/AFP

"That banter keeps going on. We are pretty used to it. It is happening on a regular basis in international cricket. The game has become really competitive and people will try to disrupt you in anyway possible," said Kohli in an online interaction yesterday.