“The Emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” We often find people in broken situations if they are kept in pressurized circumstances. The whole thinking of your mind stops at one place and you can’t really place the right or wrong prospection of your activity. Being emotional, people may lead up to some weird situation doing something he should have never done.
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Australian ex-captain Steve Smith finds himself in such a ball game which he addressed as “Brain fade” moment, which was the starting point of something unacceptable, during the 2nd Bangalore test in 2017.
After having few weeks of practice sessions in spin friendly
conditions of Dubai, the Kangaroos arrived in India for 2017
Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The home team required to win the series in order
to get the trophy back in the cabin. Hardly, someone threw cushions at the
Aussies with making predicted results of 3-0 or even 4-0. But Smith and
Co. made everyone silent beating the Indian side on a Pune pitch which was
turning from ball one.
The Indian side has no answer against the spin of Steve O’
Keefe in both the innings whereas the world witnessed one of the best knocks
by a foreign captain in alien conditions. My fingers want to carry on in praising
the ton by Steve Smith; batting in the 3rd innings of the pitch
which was getting status of poor around the world and where the home team
could only score of 100 odds in both the innings was just fabulous.
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After suffering a humiliating loss of 333runs, teams checked in “Garden
City” Bangalore for the 2nd Test. “We discussed that the
series is not over.” remembered Cheteshwar Pujara who had so
much to deliver on his shoulder. “We had lot of pressure on ourselves.”
Winning the toss, Indian skipper Virat Kohli opted for an
obvious choice of batting after going with 4 bowlers. The home side was running
well in a steady position. But a surprising leave of the captain which hit him
on the pads, brought the fast end of Indian innings. With the help of KL
Rahul’s 90, who seemed to be batting on another track, India reached 189
having no clue against the common question of Nathan Lyon, who finished
with 8-40. To make it worst, Australia went to the 2nd day being
unscattered.
India did make a fightback bowling in a disciplined line and
length. Yes, wickets were falling from one end but when you don’t have enough
runs on the board, you can’t lose your grip. 60 odds by Renshaw & Shaun
Marsh with some more help from Wade and the tail enders took the
opponents to 276. “We were always coming back in the test match.”
The words of Pujara could easily place the home side in the back
seat.
India did not make a good start again with Kohli returned to the dressing
room cheaply again. But, the partnership of Pujara and Rahane was the
one which could change the game on its head. They made batting look so easy
playing every ball at its merit with a technique at its highest level, on a
pitch where cracks were giving birth to some uneven bounce that made life so
hard for the batters.
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But, where did they reach? Only 274; which was not yet a
match winning score. But what you did was that you showed the fighting spirit
which means you could have a chance from hereon. Winning was still very much
impossible, zero chance of a draw, if not it rains for 2 full days and that
too in March in Bangalore, so only thing you need is a miracle!! The
last word is so familiar in Ind.-Aus. games. Remember 2001 Eden?
But what happened next was out of everyone’s thoughts. Could
this really happen in the Cricket field? During the start of next new day’s
play, Indian coach Anil Kumble was stated to talk with the broadcasting
team to keep an eye on the opponent players and their dressing room. According
to him, they could be found to take advice from the hut. Really?? Could
it be possible?? Is it allowed? No, absolutely not!!
And Jambo was found exactly right. During the chase, a Umesh
Yadav delivery hit Steve Smith low the pads and the umpire raised his
finger. But what’s that?? After a chat with batting partner Peter Handscomb,
Australian captain Steve Smith looked straight into the dressing room
and asked for some illegal help. No sooner had he done that, the Indian
and umpire surrounded and forced him to leave the ground.
“It was a bit of brain fade on my behalf and I shouldn’t have done
that.” Coming in a press conference after the incident, Smith reckoned it as a “Brain Fade” moment. “I got hit on the pad and
looked down to Petey [Handscomb] and said ‘look up there’ and I turned around
and said ‘what do you reckon?’ Although opponent skipper Virat Kohlirefused to understand the said word saying that the visitors had done it
couple of times before in this game. “The umpire knew exactly what was going
on.”
But, was it really a Brain Fade moment only? And most importantly,
who knows for how many times they had attempted the so-called word. Opponent
skipper Virat Kohli refused to understand the said it saying that the
visitors had done it couple of times before in this game. before that. “They have been doing that
for the last three days and it has to stop.” Because naturally you keep
focus on the batsman, DRS timer, captain or the keeper or the bowler but
not to the other players or in the pavilion. Have they received those
indications during their bowling? God knows!!!
All on a sudden the heat of not only this game but between two
countries reached its highest peak. The social media went crazy. But,
remember the game was not finished till now. Although opponent skipper ViratKohli refused to understand the said word saying that the visitors had done
it couple of times before in this game.
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The Indians after Smith’s wicket caught the grip on the game more
tightly and responded well exceptionally well to achieve victory and
will fly for Ranchi with one all. Definitely at the end, as you all know in
Dharamshala in the fourth test, India winning the match pocketed the series
and kept the Border-Gavaskar trophy back in the cabin.
But that was the game that set te tone for the rest of the series. The high intention and passion of the game by both the sides were taking us back in the 2001 series. Although the onside shocker could be the beginning of something unacceptable.
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