VIDEO | Umpire intervenes to bring peace as Virat Kohli, Tim Paine involve in verbal banter

Everything was not easy-peasy for the Indian team yesterday as Tim Paine and Usman Khawaja played some great cricket to slowly and steadily take the game away from India’s grip. After India went for a caught-behind appeal to dismiss Paine, umpire turned it down, but an upbeat Kohli immediately said, "If he messes it up, it's 2-0.” Paine also didn’t hold himself back and resorted back saying "You've got to bat first, big head".

It was all within the limits and added some spice to a series that has been underlined by unusual silences by everyone, barring Rishabh Pant. But, just after Stuart Clark asked the Paine-led side to drop the nice-boys tag to be a bit more aggressive, Kohli and Paine involved themselves in verbal banter or rather started from where they had left off.

Seeing Kohli standing at mid-on, a position he doesn’t basically stand, Paine told Kohli, "You're the one that lost it yesterday, that's why you're trying to be cool today."

Virat Kohli also stepped forward and just had a mini clash with the Aussie skipper, and seeing the matter is going to be out of hands, umpire Chris Gaffaney stepped in to cool things down. 

"That's enough. Come on, just play the game. You're the captains!" Gaffney said to which Paine retorted, "We're just trying to have a conversation. There's no swearing."

After listening to Paine’s comments, Gaffaney, in the tone of a statesman, said, "Tim, you're the captain".

Paine had no other way than calling the banter a truce and so he immediately told Kohli, “keep your cool Virat".

It was in good spirits, but a fine beginning to the verbal banter that always takes precedence in India-Australia series.