Star Indian opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal was engaged in a verbal battle with Australian opener Sam Konstas during the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Earlier in the fifth Test currently ongoing at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday, January 4, Jaiswal was seen sledging the 19-year-old batter during Australia’s first innings. 23-year-old Jaiswal, as shown in the video spread by Star Sports on its official social media channels, asked the right-handed batter why he is not playing his strokes.
“Kya ho gaya, ab shots nahi dikh rahe kya? Oye Konstas, shot nahi lag rahe kya abhi?” Jaiswal said.”
Konstas, who made his Test debut for the Baggy Greens in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, scored 60 runs from 65 balls in the first innings but continued the misery for the much-in-the-news for the day not doing much with the bat in the first innings of the fifth Test at SCG. He scored 23 off 38 balls with three fours struck during his stay at the crease.
He was the third Australian batter sent back into the pavilion. Indian pacer Mohammed Siraj accounted for him on the second ball of the 12th over. In that same over, three balls later, Siraj got rid of Travis Head as well. Head, who is the leading run scorer in the ongoing series, failed to fire for the fourth innings in a row. The left-handed batter was caught by KL Rahul in the slips after making four runs from three balls.
Leading India in this ongoing Test, Jasprit Bumrah got things off to a rollicking start on Saturday by accounting for the dismissal of Marnus Labuschagne with a two-run wicket as caught behind by Rishabh Pant. Labuschangne’s wicket was Bumrah’s 32nd in the ongoing series, and by taking 32 wickets in five matches played so far, Bumrah has broken Bishan Singh Bedi’s record of taking the most wickets for India on Test tours abroad.
Actually, within the Test series of 1977-78 between India and Australia played on the Australian grounds, Bedi had a performance that gave him 31 wickets at the end of five matches.
