“He smells very nice”: Watch Tim Paine sledges Mohammad Rizwan during Gabba Test

Dixit Bhargav | 21/11/2019
"He smells very nice": Watch Tim Paine sledges Mohammad Rizwan during Gabba Test

Tim Paine sledges Mohammad Rizwan: The usually chirpy Australian captain was at it again during the first day of the first Test.

During the first day of the first Test of the ongoing Pakistan’s tour of Australia in Brisbane, Australia captain Tim Paine commenced the Australia summer in this format by exchanging words with his wicket-keeping counterpart in Mohammad Rizwan.

It all happened during the 46th over of the Australian innings when spinner Nathan Lyon was bowling to Rizwan. Paine, who is usually chirpy from behind the wickets, continued with his knack of saying things albeit in a healthy manner.

After the fourth delivery, Paine was heard on the stump mic assuming that Rizwan would sweep the next ball for a boundary. While the right-hand batsman defended the following delivery, Paine found Rizwan’s smell to be nice. “He [Mohammad Rizwan] smells very nice,” Paine was heard as saying to the short-leg fielder.

Coming in to bat at No. 7 in the same over, an aggressive Rizwan was seen taking the attack on the Australian bowlers. Before getting out in the 55th over, Rizwan ended up scoring 37 (34) with the help of seven fours.

It was Pakistan captain Azhar Ali who won the toss and chose to bat. While a 75-run opening partnership between Shan Masood (27) and Azhar Ali (39) laid the foundation for the visitors, them losing five wickets for 19 runs saw them not banking on the initial advantage.

With Pakistan losing six wickets at the time of writing this article, all of the four Australian bowlers have contributed in the wickets column.

Tim Paine sledges Mohammad Rizwan

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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