Aussie cricket nice Mark Waugh has snapped at Indian counterpart Dinesh Karthik in a testy change within the commentary field.
After witnessing Australia capitulate for 113 after shedding 9/52 within the first 90 minutes of day three, Waugh was in no temper as Karthik requested him a sequence of questions on Australia’s subject placings.
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It was 1/31 with Rohit Sharma and Chesteshwar Pujara batting when Karthik requested Waugh concerning the subject the Aussies had in place.
Earlier, Waigh had mentioned: ““I’m astounded at this field, honestly. I cannot believe you would not have a silly mid off. You’ve got 100 something runs on the board, you’ve got Pujara who is struggling for runs, he does pad the ball away a lot on the off side. Surely you can have a bat pad off side.”
It was a subject Karthik wished to dig in on.
Karthik: “I know you’re not happy with the field set, let’s go – what are you talking about?”
Waugh: “I want a bat pad off-side and I want my point up and sort of a coaching cover, that can stay there, that would be a reasonable field.”
The subsequent shot from Pujara went via level.
Karthik: “Mark, if you had the point up that ball probably would have gone to the boundary.”
Waugh: “If you had point up, it would have gone straight to him in the circle.”
Karthik: “You don’t think he would have found the gap on that one? He had time.”
Waugh: “We obviously think different but if I’m playing against Pujara, I want a bat-pad off-side because I think he’s a big chance of squeezing one out there.”
Karthik: “But there’s not for Rohit Sharma, not talking about that?”
Waugh: “We’re not talking about Rohit Sharma. he’s a completely different player DK.”
Sanjay Manjrekar should have felt it getting a bit testy within the field as he interjected with a rating replace.
But the pair weren’t performed there.
Karthik: “So you’re happy with the field? There’s nobody for Rohit Sharma, you’re okay with that? You’d do the same as a captain?”
Waugh: “I didn’t know this was a press conference.”
Karthik: “It’s a bit of banter.”
Waugh: “I’m going to limit your questions per session, you’re going to get one question right? No more.”
There was then some silence on the protection earlier than the following ball went for six and the subject moved on.
By the sounds of it, Waugh, who had mentioned Australia “couldn’t have batted worse” earlier as they had been bowled out for 113, may not have been having fun with watching his nation demolished by India.
But the awkward change didn’t escape everybody as social media was divided on the change.
Aussie journalist Stephen Quartermain tweeted: “The sycophantic TV commentary in this #INDvAUS series is really hard to cope with. Thank goodness for Mark Waugh.”
Source: www.news.com.au
