The Indian Cricket fraternity is totally unhappy with the fact that Steve Smith has been let go for something which perhaps deserved a ban of a couple of matches.

Smith had defended himself on the DRS controversy saying that his action was not a part of any planning. It was just a momentary thing which happened in a flow and he realized almost instantly thereafter that it was wrong, but, it was not deliberate for sure.

His opposite number Virat Kohli was, however, not ready to accept that clarification and with his statements, he gave the impression that he thought Smith was lying in front of the media.

As per Virat, he could have believed Smith if he had not seen Australia do something like that before, but, he had actually noted the same thing during his batting as well whenever there was a close umpiring decision and he had even made the umpires aware of his suspicion. And then seeing it the next day again, it’s now hard for him to agree that it would have happened in the heat of the moment for Smith.

Ideally what ICC should have done was that they should have asked their own umpires if Virat had indeed told them anything regarding the unfair use of the DRS by the Aussies on the third day of the match as he stated in the press conference. If the answer of the umpires was yes, then it would have been pretty clear that Smith was at fault and that it was not an adrenaline reaction by him as he tried to portray it and also that it was a plan by the visitors to go about the DRS that way.

But, ICC instead of doing that just believed Smith and closed the matter by itself.

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