Australia’s Mitchell Starc celebrates the dismissal of India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal during the day one of the second cricket test match between Australia and India at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia. (AP | PTI)
“Bowled too slow” is the new BTS chart-buster in cricket town. And the latest hit single saw Mitchell Starc trap Yashasvi Jaiswal in front of his leg stump for the first-ever golden duck of his Test career.
Starc had gone into the pink-ball Test at Adelaide laughing off suggestions that the sledge “You are coming too slow at me” had disturbed his equilibrium. At Perth, where the Aussies lost by 295 runs, Jaiswal’s chatter was caught by the stump mic. But on match-eve at Adelaide, Mitchell Starc feigned ignorance.
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Speaking to cricket.com.au, Starc said, “I didn’t actually hear him say I bowled too slow. I don’t say too much to people these days. I may have been back in the day, but now I just sort of get on with it. Played that flick shot and I think I bowled pretty much the same ball, and he defended it. I asked where the flick shot was, and he laughed at me. We just left it at that.”
The BTS duo might’ve actually struck a healthy bantering tone with each other, where Jaiswal slammed 160-odd, and Starc set up the second Test for the Aussies claiming Jaiswal early. Umpire Chris Gaffaney had no hesitation after Starc’s full-length delivery in the first over, found Jaiswal pinned.
But despite Starc claiming he sledged much more “back in the day”, Perth had originally crackled triggering the tension while Starc got lippy when batting. Harshit Rana had been bruising Starc with bouncers when Starc told the Indian debutant, “I bowl faster than you, Harshit, and I have a long memory.” Jaiswal had responded a day later, on Rana’s behalf with his “bowl too slow” jibe.
Internet was rife with the ‘r’ word, soon after the Adelaide dismissal.
Jaiswal had been busy at Perth, verbally picking on slow limbs and crackling bones of the opponents. He had also told Nathan Lyon “You’re a legend but you are old,” according to SEN 1170’s The Run Home.
Starc speaking ahead of Adelaide though was full of praise for the spunky youngster who now has two ducks on either side of that top score of 161. Others to have scored golden ducks in Test cricket include Sunil Gavaskar, Shiv Sunder Das, Wasim Jaffer and KL Rahul, an illustrious reassurance, and Starc acknowledged Jaiswal’s fundamental talent before Adelaide.
“He’ll play a lot of cricket for India and be highly successful. Certainly, he played really, really well in that second innings (at Perth). He adapted to conditions through that first Test. We got him cheaply in the first innings and he adapted to that and played a fantastic innings, so full credit to him. He is one of those new crop of fearless young cricketers around the world,” Starc told cricket.com.au.
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