Melbourne: Australian pacer Mitchell Starc has, inadvertently, left a message meant for Virat Kohli on a parody account of the India captain.

Starc left the recently-concluded India-Australia series post the Bangalore Test after sustaining a stress fracture in his foot.

The left-arm pacer, who was congratulating Kohli for the series win, mixed the latter's real Twitter handle with the parody one.

"Hey friend :) Hopefully I don't have to look for a new ipl team?? Haha media hey!

"Didn't get a chance to have a proper catch up mate but Congrats on the series win and on your summer personally... I hope that shoulder is on the mend and not too bad. Good luck for the ipl, here's hoping to an RCB win. Cheers mate," Starc posted on the Twitter handle.

Starc's tweet soon went viral, leaving him a bit embarrassed.

The left-armer, who has been a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore, decided to skip Indian Premier League's 10th edition in order to undertake a period of rehabilitation and strength leading into the ICC Champions Trophy this June. Subsequently, Starc and RCB came to a mutual decision to discontinue their association this season.

In the two Tests he could play versus India, Starc took five wickets and 118 runs in four innings before being forced out by the stress fracture.

His replacement Pat Cummins certainly bowled his heart out, taking four wickets in his comeback game in Ranchi. But he couldn't quite come up with the knock-out punch that Starc is capable of unleashing on a consistent basis.

The propensity to surprise rival batsmen with a swinging yorker, which Starc does so often, wasn't there in Cummins's bowling, though he might as well consider himself unlucky as Matt Renshaw dropped a relatively easy catch at first slip to let Wriddhiman Saha off at a critical stage of the deciding Test in Dharamsala.

Apart from Starc's bowling, Australia missed his batting abilities as well, particularly during the first innings in Ranchi and Dharamsala.

For RCB, they would be hoping Tymal Mills, the English left-arm pacer, makes up for Starc's absence.