The three-match Test series between India and South Africa has come to an end but the discussions regarding the controversies seem to be unending. The DRS controversy that had taken place on Day 3 of the third Test has sparked many debates and discussions.
And now the former Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist and former Australia spinner Shane Warne have come out and opened up on the matter.
Gilchrist's take
According to Gilchrist it seemed “a bit premeditated” from the Indian Test team skipper Kohli.
“That accusation there I am interested in Warnie; this seems a bit premeditated. This has been building or brewing and it has got to a breaking point. That accusation about filming teams shining the ball I am assuming it goes all the way back to that very ground when the Australians were caught out on camera,” Gilchrist said on Fox Cricket.
Warne on the other hand, admitted that it was “an interesting one” and sometimes “frustration overflows.”
'Interesting one'
“Look it is an interesting one, I am not sure that should be happening from a captain of an international team. But sometimes frustration overflows, you just get so frustrated and that’s why I said I wonder if that has happened three or four times through the series, and that was like okay that is enough now we can’t have it anymore,” Warne replied.
The incident happened on Day 3 of the third Test. A DRS decision had given South African skipper Dean Elgar a new life and after that decision Kohli and his men were found to be seemingly annoyed. KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin and Kohli were heard blaming the official broadcaster for the alleged wrong decision.
Previously, former England skipper Michael Vaughan had urged the ICC to “step in.”
“It’s so important that the ICC step in because you can’t act like that whether you are frustrated or not. Of course, we have moments like that on the pitch when you think something is going against you, and it’s absolutely right to feel frustrated. But, when you act like that as a captain of our game, the ICC has to step in and can’t allow something like that to happen,” Vaughan had said on Fox Cricket.
