Steve Smith digs into tourists

MELBOURNE: India's preoccupation with their dressing room travails seems to be playing into Australia's hands with skipper Steve Smith taking a leaf out of the local media's book and denouncing MS Dhoni's team as a bunch of whingers.
Turning on the verbals before a big game is the typical Aussie way of unsettling the rivals, and the new captain showed he wasn't one to miss an opportunity by saying, "At the moment they're doing all the hard work for us...among their group they're doing a lot of whingeing and complaining among themselves. They're doing it all for us. Hopefully that can hinder them this week."
On Wednesday, the Indian cricketers took another dip in the popularity charts by evicting some members of the media from their nets session. The team has also complained about lack of vegetarian food and improper practice facilities over the past week or so.
Smith said the Aussies would continue to rile up the already-harried Indians any which way they could. Asked if there was a bit of vulnerability about the Indians regarding the tricky matter of mind games, Smith said, "For us it's about going out there and doing the same thing all the time, creating pressure... if they want to get on with that in the dressing room I guess it's up to them. I guess it's up to each individual how they handle it.
Blokes like Davy (David Warner) like to say a fair bit.... I don't say much. There's a line we don't wanna cross but we're not going to change the way we play our cricket." Informed about Smith's comment, Dhoni said, "There hasn't been any formal complaint from our side so far. I feel a bit of chirping is good on the field till the time players are not crossing their boundaries."