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Amid widespread criticism concerning his temperament, India pacer Mohammed Siraj has obtained the help of his former coach Ravi Shastri. Siraj was concerned in a verbal spat with Australia batter Travis Head in the course of the second Take a look at in Adelaide. Siraj got here by means of below the teaching of Shastri, and the latter has now acknowledged that he would need his quick bowlers to have that fireside inside them. Shastri, who created an aggressive strategy for Group India alongside then-captain Virat Kohli, instructed that the philosophy needs to be to ‘give it again nearly as good as you get’.
Throughout the second Take a look at, Travis Head had slammed Siraj and the remainder of the Indian bowling en path to a game-changing 140. When Siraj lastly received Head out, what adopted was a verbal spat between the 2, with Siraj dispensing a send-off.
The pacer was fined 20 p.c of his match charges by the ICC, with each gamers given a demerit level.
Nonetheless, Shastri has supplied help for Siraj.
“I would not have anticipated the rest from a quick bowler after he’d been hit for a six. Siraj was letting off some steam. That is the quick bowler’s temperament. You need it to be like that. Once I was taking part in, my philosophy was to offer it again nearly as good as you get. And it is precisely what I’d inform my gamers after I was teaching India in Australia. Don’t maintain again one bit,” wrote Shastri in his column for CODE Sports.
“Don’t take even one backward step. It then turned the group’s philosophy and everybody from Virat Kohli to Rishabh Pant and each member of the squad was ready to offer it again to the Aussies,” Shastri added.
Shastri additionally expressed confidence that Siraj and Head are “mature people” who wouldn’t let the second escalate into a much bigger controversy.
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