Border-Gavaskar Trophy | ‘Rohit (Sharma) I’m sure would expect these fast bowlers to react like that’: Ricky Ponting on Siraj-Head face-off | Cricket News
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who himself had been embroiled in many cheated exchanges during his career, has termed the Travis Head and Mohammad Siraj exchanging words during second Pink Ball Test at Adelaide as ‘accidental’. While Indian pacer Mohammad Siraj was fined 20 percent of his match fees apart from one demerit point added to his disciplinary code after the heated exchange post the dismissal of Head during Australia’s first innings, the Australian batsman saw one demerit point added to his disciplinary code by the match referee. “Looking back at it now, I think it was accidental the way that whole thing played out. I don’t think there was any malice meant at the start. Then the way it started and almost like the misinterpretation of what had actually gone on, I think led to how it ended,” Ponting told The ICC Review. The incident had happened during the 82nd over of Australia’s first innings with Siraj castling Head, who was batting on 140, with a yorker. The Hyderabad bowler gave Head a send-off …




