The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) yesterday dismissed a report in a tabloid stating that the Committee of Administrators (CoA) had asked India captain Virat Kohli to stay humble in Australia. According to the report, the CoA had told Kohli "to conduct himself with humility on the tour of Australia."

However, the Indian cricket board rubbished the report, calling it "baseless". "There has been a report in the media by a Mumbai based tabloid dated November 17, 2018 with the headline "Be Humble: Virat Kohli gets a CoA memo".