While Mohamed Siraj hasn’t particularly impressed with his performances with the ball in the ongling Border Gavakar Trophy (BGT), the pacer has made quite a news about his on field behaviour. During the pink ball Test in Adelaide and starkly divided opinion online with his firey send off to centurian Travis Head.
The send-off to Head had seen the pacer getting banned from the Aussie crowd in Adelaide, and the same trend continued in Brisbane during the 3rd match. However, Siraj found a way to not only get the crowd of his back but distract the Aussie batters.
During the 33rd over the match, Siraj went up to the stumps at the batter’s end and switched the positioning of the bails, perhaps in a bid to rile up Marnus Labuschagne who was seen closeby. However, Labuschagne didn’t let Siraj’s tactics fly and changed the bails back to their original position.
The trick by Siraj seemed to have worked its magic,though, as Labuchagne was dismissed in the very next over to Nitish Kumar Reddy.
After only 13.2 overs were bowled on day one, day two started without rain and the Indian bowlers had better luck in the morning compared to the previous day. Jasprit Bumrah once again spearheaded the Indian attack, taking 2 crucial wickets of Usman Khwaja and Nathan McSweeney. Meanwhile, Labuschagne was the third batsman to depart for Australia before Travis Head and Steve Smith put the pressure back on the visitors.
Meanwhile, Mohammed Siraj and Akash Deep along with Ravindra Jadeja have remained wicketless in the contest so far. A big problem for India in the series has been the overeliance on Jasprit Bumrah who has led from the front in all the three matches while receiving little support on the other end.
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