The Indian cricket team is currently on a tour of Australia where they are playing a thrilling series of five Test matches of which the first three matches have been played while the fourth match is underway.
Touring Australia is always going to be a tough one for every team due to many reasons and when it comes to Indian team, the interest for the fans as well as the media increases.
It can also be estimated from the fact that according to the Australian channel Fox Cricket, the number of fans watching the ongoing Boxing Day Test match between Australia and India has reached almost three lakhs, which is a record. .
One, a ball and every shot, apart from the players, are closely watched, which at least gives the media ‘sensational’ headlines or ‘made up’.
This has been happening since the first day of the Boxing Day Test where Australia introduced a young player Sam Konstas to the field and the young player took advantage of the opportunity to surprise everyone.
He did not spare Jasprit Bumrah, the leading wicket-taker for India in this series, and scored a half-century in his first innings.
But the issue was not about his half-century but about Virat Kohli’s shoulder clash with Sam Constas, which has been making headlines in the Australian media so far despite the match being a four-day game.
Two days have passed since the incident and Virat Kohli has also been fined a percentage of his match fee, but the Australian media and fans are not ready to forget the incident easily.
After this incident of bumping the shoulder, the Australian media called Kohli a ‘clown’, sometimes the fans shouted at him while fielding on the boundary.
All this did not go down well with the Indian media and former cricketers and they also criticized the Australian media.
Former cricketer Irfan Pathan has criticized former Australian cricketers and the media, calling them ‘the face of double standards’.
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Irfan Pathan said that ‘Australian newspapers, media and even former cricketers are the definition of double standards.’
He further said that ‘First they called Virat Kohli the king, but as soon as he (Kohli) showed some aggression, now they started giving different titles. This is a double standard.’
The matter did not stop here, but today, on the fourth day of the fourth Test match, an Australian magazine published a headline about Virat Kohli, which once again did not like the Indian media.
According to Indian website NDTV, an Australian magazine on Sunday ran the headline, ‘Virat, I am your father’. According to NDTV, the headline added, ‘The young star who rocked Kohli and his Indian stalwarts and got Australia back on track.’
A number of Indian media outlets have published articles with the headline saying ‘Australian media has fallen further.’
Now it is to be seen that after a controversial incident, this ongoing war of words between Australia and Indian media and ex-cricketers is going on.
India will have to work hard to claw their way back into the series with Australia already leading by 333 runs and one wicket away, with the fifth day of the match yet to be played.
Both the teams have won one test each before this match while one match ended in a draw.
