Yashasvi Jaiswal shuts Mitchell Starc with classy response to 'superstitious' query after bail-switching antics on Day 5

The fielding team swapping around a batter’s bails has become an en vogue ritual in the world of cricket, ever since it worked out for Stuart Broad during the Ashes series of 2023. India's Yashasvi Jaiswal looks at Australia's Mitchell Starc during play on the second day of the fourth cricket test between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. With Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant stitching together a terrific partnership in the afternoon session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, steadying the ship and making sure India were still on course for avoiding a loss in the fourth match of this series, Australia were looking for anything that could help them change the tide. Mitchell Starc, bowling in the 33rd over, grew frustrated of the steadily growing partnership, and video cameras captured him walking back to his mark but also stopping at the non-striker’s end on the way to swap around the bails on those stumps. Rishabh Pant unbothered by antics Starc would try this trick two overs later, this time against Rishabh Pant, but the typically-aloof wicketkeeper did not spare a thought regarding the incident as he kept batting on without any fuss.