Throughout the last 18 months Steve Smith has been labelled a cheat plenty of times, now after his controversial ‘catch’ on the final day of the draw second Test at Lord’s England captain Joe Root is copping it.
“As a fielder you know if your fingers are under the ball, I clearly felt that was the case. I’m an honest guy, I am not going to try and cheat the game regardless of the situation,” Root said.“It didn’t carry. We can see that,” Bichel said on Macquarie Sports Radio.
“To stand there and all of a sudden give Marnus a bit of a send off as well when Marnus is seeing the footage on the screen that he’s not out and shouldn’t be out. It was a real bizarre one from Joe ,” Bichel said.“You’d like to think there’d be a gentleman’s approach to that and just say ‘mate, I didn’t catch that’ and you don’t even go upstairs for it.
“The fact that you have got someone with that pace … and you can just poll Joe Root, give him a phone call and as ‘who would you rather face, Peter Siddle or Mitchell Starc?’ You know what he is going to say, it’s a bit bemusing,” Bichel said.
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