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Amid widespread criticism relating to his temperament, India pacer Mohammed Siraj has obtained the assist of his former coach Ravi Shastri. Siraj was concerned in a verbal spat with Australia batter Travis Head through the second Check in Adelaide. Siraj got here by beneath the teaching of Shastri, and the latter has now said that he would need his quick bowlers to have that fireplace inside them. Shastri, who created an aggressive strategy for Workforce India alongside then-captain Virat Kohli, recommended that the philosophy needs to be to ‘give it again pretty much as good as you get’.
In the course of the second Check, Travis Head had slammed Siraj and the remainder of the Indian bowling en path to a game-changing 140. When Siraj lastly obtained Head out, what adopted was a verbal spat between the 2, with Siraj doling out a send-off.
The pacer was fined 20 % of his match charges by the ICC, with each gamers given a demerit level.
Nevertheless, Shastri has supplied assist for Siraj.
“I wouldn’t have expected anything else from a fast bowler after he’d been hit for a six. Siraj was letting off some steam. That’s the fast bowler’s temperament. You want it to be like that. When I was playing, my philosophy was to give it back as good as you get. And it’s exactly what I would tell my players when I was coaching India in Australia. Do not hold back one bit,” wrote Shastri in his column for CODE Sports activities.
“Do not take even one backward step. It then became the team’s philosophy and everyone from Virat Kohli to Rishabh Pant and every member of the squad was prepared to give it back to the Aussies,” Shastri added.
Shastri additionally expressed confidence that Siraj and Head are “mature individuals” who wouldn’t let the second escalate into an even bigger controversy.
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