AUS A vs IND A, 2nd Unofficial Test: ‘I’d have walked’ – Stuart Broad reacts after Marcus Harris stands his ground despite edging it to first slip

In the 43rd implicit of the match, Tanush Kotian deceived Harris with flight, causing the shot to rotation past his borderline and onshore successful the hands of a crisp Devdutt Padikkal astatine archetypal slip. The Indian fielders appealed confidently but were near stunned erstwhile the umpire ruled Harris not out. Harris himself remained astatine the crease.

Reflecting connected the incident, Harris was quoted by cricket.com.au arsenic saying, “The boys said they watched the replays 20 times and couldn’t truly archer (if it was out).”

He added, “The god’s honorable information was I wasn’t sure. If they reviewed it and it showed I deed it and got caught, I would person gone, ‘Yep, just enough.’”

Tanush Kotian has aboriginal showed his displeasure connected Instagram calling the determination “horrible.”

At the clip of the incident, Harris was batting connected 48. He went connected to people a resilient 74, top-scoring for Australia A earlier being dismissed by Prasidh Krishna.

A hopeful for a Test callback aft a three-year hiatus, Harris is simply a beardown contender to spouse Usman Khawaja successful the Test bid against India. He faced a challenging spell from India A’s awesome gait attack, managing lone 5 boundaries during his innings. He credited his Victoria coach, erstwhile Test opener Chris Rogers, for proposal connected adapting to challenging conditions.

“It was astir apt thing that ‘Bucky’ (Rogers) said … to the full batting radical astatine Victoria, conscionable astir if the wicket’s doing a small bit, you don’t ever person to look to deed it for four. Look to deed it for two,” said Harris.

“It’s conscionable thing elemental that resonated with maine a small bit. Sometimes you travel retired and smack boundaries. Then days similar today, I deliberation I deed 1 four.”

“I’ve decidedly been capable to support the scoreboard ticking implicit a batch much than what I person (in the past), and possibly that’s conscionable subconsciously not looking to deed the shot truthful hard.”