Warner grilled over 'shameful' semi-final act

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David Warner has been blasted by erstwhile Indian opener Gautam Gambhir aft hitting a shot that bounced doubly for six during the T20 World Cup semi-final.

Warner continued his blistery tally of signifier against Pakistan, slamming 49 disconnected conscionable 30 deliveries earlier Matthew Wade guided Australia location successful the dying overs.

However, it was an incidental that occurred aboriginal successful Australia's innings that caught the attraction of Gambhir, a World Cup victor with India backmost successful 2011.

With Warner disconnected to a flying start, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam opted to bring seasoned spinner Mohammad Hafeez into the onslaught to stem the opener's travel of runs, but the 41-year-old's archetypal shot was a woeful transportation that stuck successful his manus and bounced doubly earlier arriving dilatory astatine the striker's end.

Rather than letting the shot descent past him arsenic a leg-side wide, Warner charged down the transportation and smacked it into the stands for six, with umpire Richard Kettleborough besides ruling the shot arsenic a no-ball, giving the Aussies a escaped deed the adjacent ball.

Gambhir was livid with Warner's determination to deed the shot for six, calling it "shameful".

"What an perfectly pathetic show of tone of the crippled by Warner!" helium tweeted, earlier tagging arguable erstwhile teammate Ravichandran Ashwin to inquire for different opinion.

Gambhir besides challenged outspoken erstwhile Australian players specified arsenic Shane Warne to telephone retired Warner's act.

"Ricky Ponting talks astir tone of the game, Shane Warne tweets connected everything," helium said.

"Now what volition they accidental connected Warner incident? When Ashwin Mankad we spot large comments. Where's Warne now? It's casual to speech astir different players, but hard for your ain players".

Although his sentiment wasn't arsenic beardown arsenic Gambhir's, erstwhile Australian planetary Brad Hodge besides questioned Warner's determination to dispatch the ball.

"It's a comic 1 isn't it due to the fact that there's a enactment successful athletics of what is just and what is unreasonable successful sporting conduct," helium told SEN.

"I don't know, he'd astir apt similar to instrumentality that 1 back, I'd suppose. Usually this doesn't happen.

"We don't spot it excessively often truthful erstwhile it does hap [hitting it for six] is astir apt not successful the behaviour of the sport, but it's just enough, it's a ineligible transportation truthful spell for your life."

Despite the disapproval levelled astatine Warner aft the match, nary came from the 2 commentators successful the container erstwhile the incidental occurred.

"I deliberation the shot got stuck successful his hand, truthful it bounced a mates of times and was capable for Warner to enactment it up," Indian large Sunil Gavaskar said.

"I don't deliberation I've ever seen that before, a double-bouncer deed for six," Gavaskar's co-commentator Mark Nicholas added.

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