ENG vs IND: Barmy Army posts full footage of Kohli-Anderson spat from Day 4 at Lord's

Tempers flared throughout the second Test between England and India at Lord’s, which the visitors won comprehensively by 151 runs eventually to take a 1-0 lead in the five-Test series.

Of the many verbal spats involving Jasprit Bumrah, Mark Wood and Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj and Ollie Robinson, the most eye-catching were between senior pros and famous rivals Virat Kohli and James Anderson, who had an altercation on the fourth day of the Test when the latter ran in his is follow-through on the middle of the pitch.

Unimpressed, Kohli mouthed a few words, before Anderson responded with a few expletives himself while going back to deliver.

Here’s the war of words between the famed rivals:

Virat Kohli: “What was that? huh? Swearing at me again, like Jasprit [Bumrah] huh?”

James Anderson: “You can swear at me all you want. No one else can.”

Virat Kohli: “You play by your own rules. You are calling me a Fu***** Pr*** for running too? This isn’t your backyard!”

James Anderson: “I think that bowlers can run through the crease too.”

Virat Kohli: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chirp, chirp, chirp. This is what old age makes you do.”

Interestingly, Anderson’s accomplice and a veteran of 149 Tests himself, Stuart Broad reacted to Kohli’s choice of words, as he took to Twitter on wrote next day: “The Lord’s honours board suggests it’s as close to Jimmy’s backyard as Jimmy’s actual backyard. Love the fire but that language will have him in trouble,” read Broad’s tweet.

This is pure theatre and we are only 2 matches in 😯

Test match cricket, never change. pic.twitter.com/yT5yvGIF3B

— England's Barmy Army (@TheBarmyArmy) August 18, 2021

Third Test to go underway from August 25

The next Test of the series will commence at Headingley from August 25, for which the hosts have announced a 15-member squad. Dawid Malan has been recalled while both Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley have been dropped and would go back to their respective county teams Warwickshire and Kent. Further, England, who already released spinner Dom Bess last week, have also released Jack Leach, although he remains to be Moeen Ali’s backup.

England squad for the third Test against India: Joe Root (C), Rory Burns, Haseeb Hameed, Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, James Anderson, Sam Curran, Dan Lawrence, Saqib Mahmood, Moeen Ali, Craig Overton, Mark Wood.