Australian batsman Matt Renshaw found himself in an odd situation when David Warner got out as some sort of nature’s call whilst batting was making it difficult for him to stay at the crease and he needed to the washroom as soon as possible so as to shrug off natural intrusion.
Soon after Warner’s dismissal, he rushed to the pavilion agreeing to nature’s call. However, this move from him did not come good to few of the former cricketers as he has been criticised for this act. Renshaw defined his action in the post-match press conference and explained what exactly transpired during that moment of the game
“It came pretty suddenly, Maybe five or 10 minutes before Davey (Warner) got out I asked Richard (Kettleborough, standing umpire) how long there was to lunch and he gave me the answer of ‘half an hour’ and I was struggling a bit then. It wasn’t an ideal situation to be in.
“He (Smith) wasn’t too thrilled about it but he understands that when you need to go to the toilet, you’ve got to go to the toilet,” Renshaw said.
“It wasn’t an ideal scenario but it’s life, pretty much. Obviously, we just lost a wicket so there would be two new batsmen out there but it’s a hard scenario to be in and he understood. We’ve had a chat now and we’re all good, he added.”
Renshaw also added that he didn’t know the rules regarding this,
“I wasn’t too sure on the ruling,” he explained. “I didn’t know you could retire ill so I thought I just had to get out there and make sure I batted until lunch.
“Then coming back it was probably a bit strange for me waiting to bat because as an opener you just go straight out there and bat. That was probably the most challenging bit, waiting to bat. I felt quite bad knowing that I could be letting the team down, so that’s why I went back out there,” Renshaw explained.
Renshaw returned to bat later after the fall of Australia’s third wicket in form of Peter Handscoomb.
Despite facing criticism, it was Renshaw who shone for Australia as he played a innings of 68 of 156 balls, standing tall with opener David Warner right at the start as he and Warner shared 82 runs for the first wicket before the latter was bowled by Umesh Yadav on a score of 38.
Australian batsmen failed to cash upon the good start as they lost nine wickets with a score of 205 before Mitchell Starc came to rescue and drove his team to score to 256/9. The fast bowler will look to add as many runs as possible on day 2, giving his team more and more runs to play with.