‘…when Aussies were caught on camera’: Gilchrist recalls sandpapergate after Kohli’s stump mic episode

Virat Kohli took out his angst on the South African broadcasters through the stump mic, which has become one of the hottest issues in the cricketing world. A strange prediction from Dean Elgar, showing an unusual bounce of the ball, on the third day of the Cape Town Test came to life, but it angered the Indian camp.

Apart from the Indian captain, the likes of spinners Ravichandran Ashwin, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal started lashing out at SuperSport – the official broadcaster of the series – and their words were clearly heard on the stump mic.

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The repulsive action of the Indian players was not welcomed by the experts. Many pundits condemned the act, while some even demanded punishment. Former Australia players Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne were recently supposed to express their views on the episode. The former wicketkeeper-batsman said that Kohli’s anger was ‘cooking’ and seemed a bit ‘premeditated’.

“In that charge I’m interested in Warney; it sounds like something pre-planned. It’s building or brewing and it’s reached a breaking point. The charge of filming teams shining the ball, I’m assuming it’s the same Goes back to the field when the Aussies were caught on camera,” Gilchrist said.

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Warne insisted that the delivery looked like hitting the stumps and there was no way to ‘it’s over’. However, the spin legend said that sometimes the emotions ‘overflow’.

“Look this is an interesting one, I’m not sure that should happen from an international team captain. But sometimes the frustration mounts, you just get so frustrated and that’s why I said I’m surprised this has happened three or four times through the series, and it was okay that we can’t have it now. ,” Warne said.

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