Cheteshwar Pujara comments on a past controversy involving Steve Smith during India vs Australia at Bengaluru in 2017. Pujara recalls that after Smith is given out leg before wicket (LBW), he appears to seek an opinion from his dressing room, an episode widely described at the time as a “brain fade.”
The reports presented frame the incident as a turning point for public discussion around on-field umpiring decisions and player conduct. They also note that the comments come years after the original Test match, bringing the earlier moment back into focus. While the coverage reiterates the widely circulated description of what happened during the LBW call, it does not significantly dispute the core sequence of events as understood at the time.
Overall, the articles use Pujara’s recollection to revisit the 2017 controversy and its aftereffects in cricket discussions, without adding new confirmed procedural details about how decisions were handled beyond the incident’s basic description.
