A question related to professional wrestler John Cena is surely the last thing Jason Behrendorff would have thought when he attended the press-conference following his heroics in the second T20 International in Guwahati on Tuesday (October 13).
The lanky pacer, who bowled just one over on his debut in Ranchi, rocked India’s top-order with a decisive spell in Guwahati. After being hit for two fours off the first three balls in the very first over, he made a brilliant comeback by trapping Rohit Sharma lbw. On the very next delivery, he sent back Virat Kohli to leave the hosts reeling on 8 for 2. The left-arm pacer was not done yet and dismissed Manish Pandey and Shikhar Dhawan to reduce India to 27 for 4. The Men in Blue could not recover from those early setbacks and were eventually all out for 118.
In reply, Australia began their chase on a shaky note with David Warner and Aaron Finch departing cheaply. However, Moises Henriques (62) and Travis Head (48) stitched together an unbeaten partnership of 109 runs to end Australia’s seven-match losing streak against India in T20Is.
Behrendorff was the Man of the Match for his performance which helped the visitors to level the three-match series and attended the post-match presser. But if he was expecting some questions on his performance, he was surely taken aback as one of the journalists asked him:
“Some of the fans seem to see a likeness between you and professional wrestler John Cena.”
And even before the journo could speak further, Behrendorff along with the others present in the room burst into laughter.
“Have you heard about that?,” added the journalist.
In reply, Behrendorff said:“No I haven’t, but from what I understand, he’s fair bit bigger than I am.”
At the same time, the bowler also said that he has no problem in being likened with the WWE star.
“But yeah, I’ll take it. Sure,” he added.
Here is a clip of that moment:
Fair to say @JDorff5 didn't expect this question after his four-wicket haul against India! pic.twitter.com/cwTbkx0Kfj
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) October 10, 2017