Fresh off a latest fiery run-in with Jasprit Bumrah late on Day 1, Sam Konstas has been advised to rein-in his audacious on-field approach, by no less a judge than Allan Border himself. Konstas sparked a tense exchange with the Indian captain in the final over of the opening day, with a fired-up Bumrah taking the wicket of Usman Khawaja off the final ball and immediately staring down the 19-year old. Speaking on Fox Cricket on the morning of Day 2, former great Mark Waugh expressed his concern that Konstas is painting a ‘target on his back’.
“I don’t know whether it is naive enthusiasm or that’s just the way he has always played his game through the juniors and likes to have high energy and get involved in the game, but really there was no need for Sam to get involved there,” he said of Konstas’ exchange with Bumrrah. “I think he should have bit his tongue and it’s got nothing to do with him actually and it might have broken the concentration of Khawaja. More Cricket “He might learn from that, Konstas.
If he keeps behaving like that, he is going to have a target on his back for his whole career. “I just think he is firing the opposition up. He’s fired up Jasprit.
You don’t want to fire him up. “I think Sam will reflect on that and think he should have minded his own business.” Following hot on the heels of being bumped by Virat Kohli on Day 1 in Melbourne, which saw Kohli cop a fine and a demerit point, Border urged Konstas to ‘calm it down a b.
