Indian cricket great Sunil Gavaskar believes there is something "strange" about Josh Hazlewood pulling out of the second Test with a side strain. Hazlewood was one of the few bright lights in an Australian side that promised a lot but delivered very little in the first Test defeat to India in Perth.

“After a humbling loss in the Perth Test, a leading Australian newspaper commented, ‘Bumrah is living inside Marnus Labuschagne’s head.’ It was as much a tribute to Jasprit Bumrah’s fear-inducing skills as it was a castigation of Labuschagne’s inadequacies against the Indian pace spearhead.

Sunil Gavaskar asserted that Australia have already hit the panic button with Josh Hazlewood getting ruled out of the pink-ball Test.

Sunil Gavaskar finds Josh Hazlewood's omission from the pink-ball Test a mystery. Hazlewood was ruled out of the match just days after his controversial comments during the Perth Test press conference.

Hazlewood’s remarks indubitably left pundits and former players alike stunned, with Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar also sharing his two cents on the same.