ASHES 2017: Watch - Steve Smith and James Anderson involve in a heated exchange

Earlier, Smith has termed Anderson as "one of the biggest sledgers in the game".

Steve Smith argues with James Anderson during the first Test at Brisbane | Getty

Australia skipper Steve Smith and England’s pace spearhead James Anderson often become the talk of the town because of their verbal hostilities on the field. Both the fiery individuals had shared plenty of heated moments with different cricketers all around the world during the course of their respective careers.

During the opening day of the second Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday (December 2), both Smith and Anderson couldn’t quite control their angst and got involved in a war of words. This came after a day since the Australian captain had described Anderson as "one of the biggest sledgers in the game".

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It was during the 56.3 overs of the Australian innings when both the experienced campaigners got engaged in a verbal spat. It continued for quite a few seconds until ICC's elite umpire Aleem Dar decided to intervene.

Taking to the official Twitter account, Cricket Australia posted a 21-second long video of that entire incident and captioned it as: “Smith and Anderson with PLENTY to say and Aleem decides to step in... #Ashes”.

Earlier, Anderson had compared the antics of the Australians to bullying in a column in a British newspaper.

"A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people. That is what Australian teams do," Anderson wrote in a column in the Daily Telegraph.

"They are quiet when they are not on top which was the case for the first three days of the Brisbane Test and then on day four they came alive. It is down to us to cope with that and deal with it," he further wrote.

Reacting to the English paceman’s remarks, Smith had said: "I read the article, and it's interesting coming from Jimmy, calling us bullies and big sledgers."

"I think he's one of the biggest sledgers in the game, to be perfectly honest with you. To me in particular, I remember back in 2010 when I first started and wasn't any good, he was pretty happy to get stuck into me then. Pretty interesting coming from Jimmy," Smith further added while addressing the media on the eve of the second Test.

 
 

By Salman Anjum - 02 Dec, 2017

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