Harshit Rana had to pay the price for threatening, the ball hit the Australian batsman's head and then he lost his wicket.
In the second match of the Perth Test, Team India bundled out Australia for 104 runs in the first innings. Team India, which was itself bundled out for 150 runs on the first day of the match, put Australia in a tough spot with a brilliant counter-attack under captain Jaspreet Bumrah and then finished them off on a low score on the second day. However, on the second day, Team India had to wait a long time to finish the Australian innings. During this, a skirmish was also seen between Australian batsman Mitchell Starc and Indian pacer Harshit Rana, where Starc first threatened Harshit lightly. Then the Indian pacer also gave a strong reply.
On the second day of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Australia resumed their innings at 67 for 7 at the Optus Stadium. Bumrah dismissed Alex Carey in the second over of the day, while Harshit Rana did not take much time to send the next batsman, Nathan Lyon, back to the pavilion. Now Team India was looking for just one wicket and Josh Hazlewood was at the crease with Mitchell Starc.
Mitch Starc offers a little warning to Harshit Rana 😆#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/KoFFsdNbV2
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) November 23, 2024
Harshit's attack, Stark's threat
After taking Lyon's wicket, Harshit Rana looked at it with great rhythm and confidence. In such a situation, he started attacking the Australian batsmen with bouncers. Such balls troubled even a player like Starc, who himself has been troubling the opposing batsmen with his balls. In such a situation, it was natural for Starc to get angry. After a few short balls, Starc went straight to Harshit and tried to threaten him in a loving manner. Starc reminded Harshit, who was making his Test debut, saying, "I can bowl faster than you. I have a very good memory."
Now Starc's intention behind saying this was to try to scare the Indian pacer that he too can do the same to Harshit during his bowling and can do it in a more lethal manner. Actually, Starc and Harshit were playing together in Kolkata Knight Riders in the last IPL season and thus a good friendship had developed between the two. That is why Starc tried to threaten Harshit funnily.
Then the Indian pacer took revenge.
However, Harshit gave a good reply to this threat. Without being afraid of Starc's threat, he continued to attack with short-pitch balls and Starc's attempt to leave one such ball failed and the ball hit his helmet. After this, the physio examined Starc for a long time and his helmet had to be changed. This collision did not end there. When the Indian team could not get the last wicket for a long time, Harshit came back again and dismissed Starc in just two balls and bundled out Australia for 104 runs. Harshit, playing his first match, took 3 wickets for 48 runs in 15.2 overs.