Virat Kohli was involved in a heated exchange of words with a female mediaperson at the Melbourne airport as the former India captain felt that his privacy was being breached.

After the third Test in Brisbane ended in a draw on Wednesday, the Indian and the Australian players flew to Melbourne for the fourth Test, which begins on December 26.

At the Melbourne airport, Australian mediapersons were speaking to home team pacer Scott Boland when Kohli arrived with his family — wife Anushka and kids Vamika and Akaay. The attention then shifted to Kohli with camerapersons trying to get a shot of him.

But that infuriated Kohli and he was seen talking to a Channel Nine reporter in videos posted on social media.

Kohli did not like his family being filmed in a public place. “With my kids, I need some privacy, you can’t film without asking me,” Kohli could be heard saying.

“It was upon seeing the waiting cameras that Kohli became a little heated over what is largely a misunderstanding when he thought the media was filming him with his children,” a reporter at the airport said on 7NEWS.

The matter, however, cooled down when the star cricketer was assured that his children weren’t being filmed.