Hussey Unleashes Fury as Jasprit Bumrah Destroys Sam Konstas at MCG: 'It always comes back to bite you'

Australian debutant Sam Konstas quickly won over the crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with his outstanding performance with the bat in the first innings. His entertaining knocks and audacious batting style, including scoops and reverse-scoops, made him an instant favorite among the fans. However, Konstas also found himself in the midst of controversy during the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy when Virat Kohli appeared to collide with him while fielding. Despite the incident, Konstas' impressive debut and likable personality made him a standout player in the match.

In response, Konstas was responsible for trying to rile up the packed MCG crowd, interacting with them throughout India’s batting innings. This included mimicking Kohli’s shoulder barge, and once the Indian batter was dismissed by another crowd-favourite in Scott Boland, by giving him a send-off by turning to the crowd and relishing the wicket. Konstas, however, got a taste of his own medicine soon after.

Returning to bat in the second innings, Konstas couldn’t recreate his earlier success, as he found his stumps rattled early in his innings, falling to an on-fire Jasprit Bumrah. Bumrah gave Konstas a send-off by imitating the teenager’s own celebration following Kohli’s wicket, after a beautiful delivery which seamed in from length and bowled Konstas through the gate.

‘It makes the battle all the more spicy…’

On commentary duties for Fox Sports, former Australian batter Michael Hussey commented on how Konstas would need to be prepared for this kind of response if he took it on himself to dish it out. "It always comes back to bite you at some stage. I wonder if Sam Konstas is back in the dressing rooms thinking, 'I wish I charged him',” said Hussey jokingly. “It just makes the battle between the two nations all the more spicy.”

While Bumrah is regularly a calm and non-confrontational figure, he was clearly fired-up after dismissing Konstas, who had disturbed him in the first innings by playing unconventional shots such as the scoop. Having seen Konstas’ antics with the crowd while fielding, Mark Waugh argued that even Bumrah wanted a piece of the young Aussie batter.

"You don't see a lot of theatrics from Bumrah, but when Sam Konstas was dismissed, he thought, 'Yep, I'm here as well'," explained the former Australian player on Fox Sports.

Bumrah’s phenomenal series continued as he added to the wicket of Konstas with the dismissals of Travis Head for the second time in the Test, as well as Mitchell Marsh and Alex Carey soon after to turn the tide of the match and make a result for India a big possibility.

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