IND vs AUS: 'Beer snake' responsible for riling up Mohammed Siraj costed Rs 2.33 lakh, reveals fan

Mohammed Siraj got into trouble when he was fined 20 percent of his match fee and earned a demerit point for his send-off to Travis Head during the Pink-ball Test between India and Australia in Adelaide. Siraj was aggressive throughout the game and it peaked when he gestured Head to walk back after the batter got dismissed for 140. The duo later called a truce letting bygones be bygones but ICC punished them a few days after the match was finished.

This was not the only incident when Siraj lost his cool in the match. Earlier in the innings, which was a day before the Head incident, an agitated Siraj threw the ball at Marnus Labuschagne after the batter pulled out from his stance while the bowler was midway in his run-up. While Siraj vividly wasn't pleased with Labuschagne's action the batter was genuinely distracted by movement behind the sight screen. A fan with a 'beer snake' was crossing the screen, which led to the batter moving away at the last moment.

Lachie Burtt is the man who was walking by and it has come to notice that the 21-year-old spent a lot of money and efforts to make the snake. He collected 250 empty cups and spent 2750 Australian dollars (Rs 2.33 lakhs) for the 'beer snake'.

Burtt attended with seven friends who spent hours assembling the beer snake, a popular spectacle at Australian cricket matches. The prank didn't come cheap, as the available beer, Hahn, cost $11 per cup.

"The funny thing was everyone could buy four drinks [at one time], so we were all sitting there with four drinks each and there was 67 of us. So there was a fair bit going on… plus everyone around us on the hill, they were loving it," NewsCorp quoted an engineer present at the venue as saying.

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Burtt later apologised for the disturbance he caused, mostly to Labuschagne. "I didn't really have time to stop and think what I was doing right now and what the effects were going to be because of it. I did feel a bit silly, it wasn't the right thing … sorry Marnus," he told 9News.

"It's probably not the right thing to do, but no one got hurt. I didn't jump the fence or anything. It was one ball, and Marnus (Labuschagne) got a four after that, so no worries. In my head at that time, I just wanted to get away from the guard, so I saw the space and hopped over the tiny white rope."