In the second Perth Test match, Team India bundled out Australia's first innings for 104 runs. Team India, which itself was bundled out for 150 runs on the first day of the match, made Australia's situation difficult with an excellent counter action under the leadership of captain Jasprit Bumrah and then defeated them on a small score on the second day. However, on the second day, Team India had to wait a long time to settle the Australian innings. During this time, a dispute was also seen between Australian batsman Mitchell Starc and Indian pacer Harshit Rana, where Starc first gave a mild threat to Harshit and then the Indian pacer also gave a strong reply.

On the second day of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Optus Stadium, Australia advanced its innings with a score of 67 runs for 7 wickets. Bumrah dismissed Alex Carey in the second over of the day, while Harshit Rana did not take much time to send the next batsman, Nathan Lyon, back to the pavilion. Now Team India was looking for only one wicket and Josh Hazlewood was with Mitchell Starc at the crease.

Harshit's attack, Stark's threat

Harshit Rana looked in great rhythm and confidence after taking the wicket of Lion. In such a situation, he started attacking both the Australian batsmen with bouncers. Such balls also troubled players like Starc, who himself has been troubling the opposing batsmen with his balls. In such a situation, it was natural for Stark to get angry. After a few short balls, Starc went straight to Harshit and tried to threaten him in a loving manner. Starc reminded Harshit, who was making his Test debut, saying, “I can bowl faster than you. I have a very good memory.”

Mitch Starc offers a little warning to Harshit Rana #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/KoFFsdNbV2

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Now Starc's purpose in saying this was to scare the Indian pacer that he too can do the same thing with Harshit during his bowling and can do it in a more lethal manner. In fact, Starc and Harshit were playing together in Kolkata Knight Riders in the last IPL season and a good friendship had developed between them. So Stark tried to threaten Harshit in a humorous manner.

Then the Indian pacer took revenge

However, Harshit also gave a good reply to this threat. Without fearing Starc's threat, he continued the attack of short pitch balls and Starc's attempt to leave one such ball failed and the ball hit his helmet. After this, the physio examined Starc for a long time and his helmet had to be changed. This conflict did not end here. When the Indian team could not get the last wicket for a long time, Harshit returned again and he dismissed Starc in just two balls and bundled out Australia for 104 runs. Harshit, playing his first match, took 3 wickets for 48 runs in 15.2 overs.