Things got heated up a
little bit yesterday in the first test match between India and Australia as the
players from both sides looked to get involved in the war of words. It all
started when David Warner was clean bowled off the bowling of Varun Aaron and
the Indian team gave him a send off by screaming ‘come on’, ‘come on’ in almost
his ears as he walked back to the pavilion. Unfortunately for India, that
turned out to be an illegal delivery as the TV umpire found out that Aaron had
no part of his feet behind the popping crease as he bowled the ball. So, Warner
was called up and as he came back, he started mocking Aaron which prompted some
of the Indian close in fielders to have an animated chat with the Aussie left
hander.
The second incident took
place in the final session of play when Rohit Sharma was bowling. Steven Smith
came down the wicket against him and tried to pad a delivery away. Rohit
appealed viciously, but, the umpire, obviously, could not give that wicket as
Smith was a long way down the wicket. It was almost impossible for the umpire
to judge from there if the ball was going to hit the stumps. The altercation
arose when Smith tried to gesture to Rohit that he should not have appealed for
that. Rohit, who was already frustrated after not having got that wicket, got
furious to see Smith gesturing towards him and he screamed loudly ‘what’
‘what’.
Smith
did not respond to that though, to his credit, and got ready into his stance to
face another ball, but, that’s when Virat Kohli decided to take it a bit too
far. He went to Smith and asked him to stay in his limits and not try to say
anything unnecessarily to the bowlers or the fielders. Smith reverted back to
him angrily, but, then, the umpires took charge and got it all sorted. It did
not look too good on television, but, many experts reckon that it’s actually
good that such a thing happened as it would set the series up nicely now.
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