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Sam Konstas was concerned in a heated incident with India stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah.© AFP
Australia batter Sam Konstas was concerned in a heated incident with India stand-in captain and pacer Jasprit Bumrah on Day 1 of the fifth Take a look at in Sydney on Friday. For the unversed, Bumrah was not proud of Usman Khawaja taking additional time to take his guard. Nevertheless, Konstas determined to confront Bumrah. The incident solely riled Bumrah up as he dismissed Khawaja off the ultimate ball of the day’s play, earlier than clashing with Konstas, who was on the non-striker’s finish. Former Australia batter Mark Waugh has slammed Konstas for taking part in his half in riling up Bumrah, urging the teen to thoughts his enterprise.
“You can understand Usman Khawaja trying to wind the clock down so he didn’t have to face another over, but then you have got Sam Konstas trying to get involved. I don’t know whether it is naive enthusiasm or that’s just the way he has always played his game through the juniors and likes to have high energy and get involved in the game, but really there was no need for Sam to get involved there,” Waugh instructed Fox Sports activities.
Waugh additionally urged that Konstas’ involvement resulted in Khawaja’s dismissal because the veteran may need misplaced his focus. He additionally warned the teen towards throwing such antics sooner or later, and let his bat do the speaking as a substitute.
“I think he should have bit his tongue and it’s got nothing to do with him actually and it might have broken the concentration of Khawaja. He might learn from that Konstas. If he keeps behaving like that he is going to have a target on his back for his whole career,” he added.
“I just think he is firing the opposition up. He’s fired up Jasprit. You don’t want to fire him up. I think Sam will reflect on that and think he should have minded his own business and say, I have just got to let the bat do the talking,” Waugh additional defined.
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