“I didn’t have a good understanding of where to draw the line and stuff like that…,” Kohli told Fox Sports.

“Those are things that I, I wouldn’t say I regret, but definitely I look at them as mistakes. But mistakes that were important for me to commit so I can learn from them.”

[caption id=”attachment_91314″ align=”alignnone” width=”800″] “I learn from my own mistakes, I realise my own mistakes myself, and just kept correcting them through the journey”[/caption]

The 30-year-old, who flipped the bird at a vocal SCG crowd back in 2012, says he is “massively different” now than he was back then.

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“One thing is that I’ve always been myself. I’ve never tried to be someone else because of the opinion,” he said.

“I learn from my own mistakes, I realise my own mistakes myself, and just kept correcting them through the journey. But (I’m) massively different from the last two tours, especially the first one. I was so bad.”

[caption id=”attachment_90796″ align=”alignnone” width=”800″] “I always just wanted to find my own way and I guess those things were a part of that journey”[/caption]

“I was never a perfect mould of typical, old school cricketer,” he added.

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“I always just wanted to find my own way and I guess those things were a part of that journey.”

Kohli is currently leading India in the first of four Tests against Australia at the Adelaide Oval, where his team have worked themselves into a strong position.