Jonny Bairstow • Virat Kohli • Cricket

 Jonny Bairstow • Virat Kohli • Cricket

Jonny Bairstow • Virat Kohli • Cricket

Stirred by a hot exchange with Kohli, Bairstow turns aggressive to reach his fifty

Bairstow reached his fifty, punched gloves with Stokes, showed his bat to his dressing room, and looked up to the skies, eyes shut.

Virat Kohli vs Jonny Bairstow started on the evening of day 2. Bairstow, who starred in two great chases against New Zealand with fiery knocks, was playing within himself. Some good old tuk-tuk cricket. On air, Graeme Swann would say, “Bairstow is looking a shadow of the player who was blasting everything against New Zealand. It’s a different quality attack here.”

On the field, Kohli would start chirping. At one point, in the crossover of the overs, he shouted out, “A bit faster than Southee, eh?”. At the end of the second day’s play Kohli had walked away, with his hands over Bairstow’s shoulder and he was laughing away at some time.

Day 3 began with Bairstow adopting similar conservatism as day 2. Kohli began to find his voice again. Bairstow found his lungs too. Both went verbally against each other. Bairstow signalling with his gloved fingers about how Kohli was yapping away. Kohli put his finger on his mouth, and gestured him to bat. Bairstow gestured him to go back to field. At the other end, stood England’s captain Ben Stokes with a gentle smile creasing his face.

At the end of the over, the umpires got into the act again. More talks. At the end of which, Kohli was seen laughing and landing a friendly jab at Bairstow.

That was the moment things began to turn England’s way. Bairstow kept up his aggression and the ball began to disappear over fielders’ heads. Stokes rushed down the track and mistimed a heave high towards cover but Shardul Thakur spilled it. Bairstow kept playing his shots – short-arm pulls, drives, lofted hits and the runs began to flow. At one point, the camera zoomed to Kohli, who was staring either at the scoreboard or at the giant screen.

Watch: Stump Mic Caught War of Words Between Virat Kohli And Jonny Bairstow

War of words between Jonny Bairstow and Virat Kohli: Jonny Bairstow continued his imperious batting form as he plundered an entertaining, but hard-fought half-century against India on the morning of Day 3 in Edgbaston to keep the hosts afloat after they had lost five wickets in the evening of Day 2.

Amid this, Bairstow was involved in a heated exchange with former India skipper Virat Kohli.

Kohli was seemingly angry with Bairstow taking his time in the middle. Apart from facing a challenging bowling by Indian bowlers, Bairstow was also having plenty of issues with the sightscreen and some people sitting and moving above it as he regularly stopped play to make adjustments there.

A flustered Bairstow then walked down the pitch to chat his batting partner, Ben Stokes, and that perhaps angered Kohli who came charging in from slips to have a word with Bairstow. Kohli was visibly furious and lashed out at the Yorkshire batsman.

The players then calmed down when in the next over Kohli and Ben Stokes were seen having a chat with smiles on their faces before Kohli did a friendly punch on Bairstow’s shoulders.

However, while Virat Kohli had the upper hand on the verbal, it was Bairstow who let his bat do the talking in a stunning counter-attack on the Indian pacers.

Bairstow, who had started off the day at 12 runs off 47 balls and moved on to 16 runs off 64 balls then decided to play his shots in the typical Baz-Ball style with which he had demolished the Kiwis last month. At the time of writing, Bairstow has smashed 9 fours in his innings so far, and has moved from 16 (64) to 60* (87).

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