England cricket icon and talkSPORT commentator Darren Gough couldn’t help but laugh when Brydon Carse copied his signature move.
The previous England bowler once stuck his tongue out when he was running as much as bowl against the West Indies, and Carse elected to do the identical through the second Test against India.
Carse had been irritated by India captain Shubman Gill through the previous delivery.
The Durham fast bowler ran in and stuck his left arm out, which caused Gill to withdraw from the crease.
Gill had a chat with the umpires while Ben Stokes and Carse exchanged a number of words with the batter.
On the next ball, the South Africa-born star charged in, stuck his tongue out and thought he’d got Gill out LBW.
He didn’t even take a look at the umpire as he charged off just assuming he got his man only to show around and realise that wasn’t the case.
Stokes called for a review, and the technology showed that Gill had hit the ball into his pads, so he survived.
Gough was then shown the clip on talkSPORTS’s overseas coverage of the second Test.
Showing him the clip, talkSPORT’s cricket correspondent Jon Norman said: “I’m undecided should you saw it, but Brydon Carse did a Goughy.”
In response, Gough said: “What? Reverse-swing?
“Ohhhhhh, he stuck his tongue out. Did he? Copycat. I did it higher.”
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Norman then explained what caused Carse to emulate Gough.
“The over when England went up for leg-before-wicket against Gill; the ball before, Carse ran in and stuck his left arm out.
“So, Gill backed away. Stokes had a word. Carse had a word and Gill spoke to the umpires.
“So, Gill goes back to his mark. The very next ball, Carse runs in, and he does the old Goughy.”
Gough in response couldn’t help but laugh: “Sensible. Well done, Brydon.
“It was a very good delivery as well, so it [sticking his tongue out] didn’t put him off.
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“Do you remember who I bowled it to? It was against the West Indies, and it was Ridley Jacobs, and he played and missed, so he wasn’t too comfortable with me.”
On the time of the incident, former teammate and talkSPORT regular Steve Harmison had his say on the Carse incident.
He said: “We must always have Goughy on here because are you able to remember all those years ago when he pulled a funny face?
“Carse as he’s running in there, threw his left arm out sideways to place Gill off.”
And on that incident, Harmison doesn’t think Gill did anything improper.
“I even have no problem with that.”
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After making history in the primary Test, England won the toss at Edgbaston and elected to bowl first again.
Carse claimed the wicket of Karun Nair while Chris Woakes managed to get KL Rahul to smash the ball into his own stumps.
Stokes then managed to nab Yashasvi Jaiswal before Rishabh Pant spooned one into the air for Zak Crawley to grab.
Woakes has since bowled Nittish Reddy nevertheless it’s advantage India at stumps as they finish the day on 310-5 with Shubman Gill on an unbeaten 114.