No action on DRS row, says ICC

But former India skippers Sourav Ganguly, Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to investigate Australia, while Smith’s predecessor Michael Clarke suggested there may be some merit to Kohli’s sensational claim.

It cost India a Test match in their incredible home run, the Aussies making them fall in their own trap in Pune.

“BCCI has requested the ICC to take cognisance of the fact that the Australian skipper Mr Steve Smith in his press conference admitted to a “brain fade”.

What got the goat of the Indian team, captain Virat Kohli and the team management was that neither Llong and fellow on-field umpire Richard Illingworth nor Broad decide to take serious note of the sequence of events in which Smith and Handscomb were involved and report it to the ICC. We need someone from the ICC level to make the decision.

“Australia and India are playing, there’s always emotions flying around We get a little bit of white-line fever every now and then”.

He even had a good laugh as Steve Smith and Ishant Sharma imitated each other with facial expressions that could have won them BAFTA nominations. “Also why didn’t the ICC wait for 48 hours to end?”

“It’s just basically a rule of the cricketing world – you just keep everything on the field”, Warner said.

The paper also came up with an opinion over DRS row with a title “Killing the spirit of cricket?”

The tourists are indignant about Kohli’s words.

“It’s pretty much absurd I think, when Steven Smith did look up (to the team balcony after being given out lbw) we were more horrified than anyone else because we’d never seen that before”, Saker told the Australian media on Thursday.

Teams have slyly tried to manipulate DRS ever since it was introduced, and the Indians’ outrage is merely a product of their recent exposure to the system.

“It was done as a goodwill gesture and we have made a decision to focus on the game”, said a BCCI official confirming that the complaint against the two Aussie players has been withdrawn.

Kohli, however, still expects his spearhead slow bowlers Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja to continue what they have been doing over a successful home season.

Talking about his inhuman form over the last 14 months where he has averaged about 100 in T20Is and has managed to scored 4 double centuries in Test cricket, Kohli said, “Last 10 to 12 months have been incredible”.

Kohli rejected Steve Smith’s explanation his “brain fade” was a one off, alleging that Australia were systematically looking to support staff for advice regarding reviews in Bangalore. Relations between the two sides are now at its lowest point since the Monkeygate scandal of 2007-08.