But tempers frayed throughout the Test, which ended with Indian captain Kohli suggesting Australia’s players had been looking up towards their dressing-room for advice on whether to use the Decision Review System.
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Kohli was angry that Smith appeared to seek guidance from the dressing room over whether to review the decision after he was given out lbw.
Umpire Nigel Llong did intervene, but it was Kohli who gave the Baggy Green’s captain the sternest talking-to. Virat too lost his cool and he did not seem to mince his words in the press conference.
The simmering war of words and discontent between the two captains Virat Kohli and Steven Smith has reached another low.
In the statement, the BCCI also said they had asked the ICC to take note of the incident, considering Steve Smith himself admitted to the slip, calling it a “brain fade”. It was a bit of brain-fade on my behalf.
The two sides have a long history of bad blood and Australia’s shock victory in the first Test, which ended India’s four-year 20-match unbeaten run on home soil, has only heightened tensions.
“There is a line that you don’t cross on a cricket field”.
Fine, Kohli had also given it back to the Aussies as good as he got in the past. Handscombe said he was unaware of the rules pertaining to DRS referral. I think that for us was quite important and something you look for as a team. So we knew that once we get 150-plus, we have a fair chance to have a go at them.
When asked if the word he was referring to was cheating, Kohli said: “I didn’t say that”.
“We’ve changed the way we want to play, we’ve obviously changed the side and we’re a younger side so I’m pretty pleased with the way we do things now”.
“I got hit on the pad and looked down to Petey and he said look up there”, Smith explained. England have done it, Australia have done it, and to say it’s just not cricket is to forget what Test teams have been up to since 1877. Sledging, which in normal terms means, “make taunting or teasing remarks to (an opposing player, especially a batsman) in order to disturb their concentration” but in Australian dictionary means ‘criticise or insult in a mocking way’. I think it’s been 4,502 days since Australia’s won a test here in India.
Australia’s cricket tour of India is hotting up after the hosts mounted a stunning comeback to win the second Test and level the series.
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Healy was dismissed for a paltry 12 in the second innings and while walking up the stairs towards the dressing room, Healy was seen throwing away his bat and mumbling something.
