Vision emerges of Indian players in fiery on-field altercation
Startling vision has emerged showing two Indian stars in a fiery verbal altercation during Day 4 of the second Test.
As you can see above, Ravi Jadeja and Ishant Sharma were captured squabbling on Monday during Australia’s batting innings.
Jadeja, the 12th man, appeared to be angry with Sharma and was certainly letting him know about it.
According to Channel 7 commentator Tim Lane, the two players were speaking in Hindi, but the language was still too colourful to broadcast.
It’s unclear what Jadeja and Sharma were arguing about but it wasn’t a friendly discussion.
The pair went chest to chest before two teammates, including Mohammed Shami, eventually helped restore order.
“It does seem pretty animated,” Ricky Ponting said on Channel 7.
“There’s lots of finger pointing. They were separated on a couple of occasions.”
Cracks emerging in Indian camp?
The startling vision is the latest sign that cracks are emerging within the Indian camp.
India veteran Mohammed Shami has hinted at a discord between the players and management after Nathan Lyon made a mockery of the tourists’ decision not to play a front-line spinner for the second Test.
Lyon bagged five wickets in the first innings in Perth before nabbing two more – including the prized scalp of Virat Kohli – as India went five wickets down on Day 4.
Speaking after play, Shami said he believes his side erred by not picking a front-line spinner.
The tourists opted for a four-prong pace attack as they hunted an unassailable 2-0 series lead, replacing injured off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin with Umesh Yadav rather than Jadeja.
Ashwin’s absence has been made all the more glaring by the form of Lyon, while off-spinning allrounder Hanuma Vihari failed to take a single wicket in the second innings.
Shami, who claimed career-best figures of 6-56 on Monday, opted against toeing the party line when asked about the absence of a tweaker in the XI.
“I feel there should have been a spinner, but these things depend on your management,” Shami told reporters in Hindi.
“The team management makes these decisions. We can’t do anything about it.
“We had one spinner (Vihari) who didn’t bowl badly.”
with AAP
