The brash fast bowler offers
India a third strike option and allows his captain to play a more diplomatic role
It can be dangerous to have a trademark wicket celebration. Just ask Sheldon Cottrell. You salute a couple of times, and suddenly it’s your thing. Before you know it you’re Googling: “Can you get RSI in your elbow?”
After just two Tests in
England, India’s Mohammed Siraj has confused batters and onlookers alike with his favourite send-off. When Jonny Bairstow got the finger-to-the-lips treatment at Trent Bridge, the Yorkshireman (who has nothing against a bit of belligerence per se) was at pains to point out that he had done nothing to provoke it. “There was absolutely nothing in that,” Bairstow said. “He didn’t say anything to me and I didn’t say anything to him! I didn’t really know where that came from.”