India pacer Mohammed Siraj claimed that Travis Head ‘lied’ about him in the press conference after the Indian pacer gave the Australian a fiery send-off on the second day of the ongoing second Test in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) in Adelaide. The incident took place during the 82nd over of the Australian first innings.
Head, who was batting at 140 at that time, missed a juicy full toss from Siraj to see his stumps shattered. Upon getting the wicket, Siraj was pumped up ad ended up having a brief confrontation with the Australia batter. The southpaw then went to claim at the press conference that he was playing a fair game and nothing bad was said to Siraj.
However, Siraj countered and admitted that he was abused by Head. “After bowling him out, I celebrated. Then he abused me. You can see on TV as well. In the start, it was my celebration, I didn’t say anything to him. In the press conference, he said wrong thing. He lied. No way he said well-bowled,” Siraj told Harbhajan Singh on Star Sports.
