{"id":207816,"date":"2025-01-04T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/australia-coach-andrew-mcdonald-accuses-india-of-trying-to-intimidate-sam-konstas-in-scg-test\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T16:43:18","slug":"australia-coach-andrew-mcdonald-accuses-india-of-trying-to-intimidate-sam-konstas-in-scg-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/australia-coach-andrew-mcdonald-accuses-india-of-trying-to-intimidate-sam-konstas-in-scg-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia coach Andrew McDonald accuses India of trying to &#8216;intimidate&#8217; Sam Konstas in SCG Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2025\/01\/bumrah-kapil-14-1736003245.webp?resize=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Australia coach Andrew McDonald accuses India of trying to &#8216;intimidate&#8217; Sam Konstas in SCG Test\" title=\"Australia coach Andrew McDonald accuses India of trying to &#8216;intimidate&#8217; Sam Konstas in SCG Test\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : GETTY<\/span> Jasprit Bumrah and Sam Konstas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Australia head coach Andrew McDonald has accused India of trying to intimidate youngster Sam Konstas in the dying stages of day 1 of the SCG Test on Friday, January 4.\u00a0  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>Konstas was involved in a heated exchange with Bumrah after the bowler was unhappy that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/usman-khawaja\" rel=\"noopener\">Usman Khawaja<\/a> took a long time to get ready to face the balls. After bowling four deliveries, Bumrah wanted to complete the over quickly to allow for another over and a potential wicket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, as Bumrah felt unhappy with Khawaja&#8217;s act, Konstas interfered as he had an exchange with the stand-in India captain Bumrah. Two balls later, Bumrah nicked out Khawaja&#8217;s slips as the whole Indian team celebrated in the face of Konstas.<\/p>\n<p>Australian coach said that he had a chat with Konstas and believed that the visitors were trying to intimidate the youngster. &#8220;My conversation with him was around whether he&#8217;s okay. Clearly, the way India celebrated that was quite intimidating,&#8221; McDonald said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clearly within the laws of the game, the rules and regulations. There&#8217;s been no charges laid, but to have an opposition swarm the non-striker like that, we&#8217;ve got a duty of care to our player to make sure he&#8217;s okay and in a headspace to go out there and perform,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald was asked about whether the Indian team went too far in their celebration. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear that&#8217;s acceptable because there was no fines or punishments, so I&#8217;ll leave that up the ICC &#8211; Andy Pycroft being the match referee &#8211; and the umpires out there. If they thought it was satisfactory then I suppose that&#8217;s the benchmark we are playing towards,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-coach-andrew-mcdonald-accuses-india-of-trying-to-intimidate-sam-konstas-in-scg-test-2025-01-04-969559\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : GETTY Jasprit Bumrah and Sam Konstas. 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