With Australia chasing fast runs and an Indian batting innings looming on Day 4 of the fourth and remaining Test, Rohit Sharma headed to the crease and commenced shadow batting on the Gabba.
Images present Rohit pretending to bat an imaginary shot as Steve Smith watched on the Gabba in Brisbane with the sequence locked at 1-1.
Cheeky Rohit…. very very cheeky!#AUSvIND #INDvsAUS @ImRo45 pic.twitter.com/DJm5jJkcpW
— Sridhar_FlashCric (@SridharBhamidi) January 18, 2021
Shadow follow 🤪 as Smith watches. pic.twitter.com/BjXIgqzGdl
— Cricketopia (@CricketopiaCom) January 18, 2021
“It‘s very important for all those who thought Steve Smith was tampering the pitch and he had some kind of malicious intent, Rohit Sharma has done the exact same thing as Steve Smith did,” Indian broadcaster Sanjay Manjrekar said on during commentary. “In fact, there’s a step with the suitable foot.”
This comes simply days after Steve Smith was criticised for the same transfer and was labelled a cheat by followers and former gamers after marking centre whereas the Indians had been batting. During a break session, Smith was seen purportedly eradicating Pant’s crease mark.
However, video footages confirmed that the bottom employees at SCG had already eliminated all of the crease marks whereas sweeping the bottom. Smith bought help from Australia captain Tim Paine and coach Justin Langer although.
Wow….full footage of the scuffing controversy. I imply, I gained’t even take sides, see it and determine for yourselves in case your mind permits you clearly.
Some folks on social media really want to develop up !! pic.twitter.com/kOJSpdI6gp
— Don Mateo (@DonMateo_X13) January 12, 2021
“If anyone who knows Steve Smith, he’s a bit quirky and he does some weird (stuff). We’ve all laughed about it… it’s what Steve Smith does at the crease. He does it most games, he’s thinking about batting,” Langer had mentioned to the reporters forward of the Gabba Test.
“Anyone who suggests for one millisecond he was doing anything untoward. They are way out of line. Absolutely out of line. That wicket was that flat and it was like concrete. You need 15 inch spikes to make an indent on the crease,” he added.
