The young Australian encountered a new experience in his cricketing career when he had to retire ill on 36 due to an upset stomach.
Put yourselves in the shoes of Matt Renshaw. You're 20. You've entered cricket's biggest stage only three months ago. You've just played four Tests for Australia. You're playing a Test in India for the first time. You're fighting hard against India's spin trio in your first innings in the subcontinent.
It's all going great for you. Until, you have to answer the nature's call in the middle of your innings.
The young Australian encountered a new experience in his cricketing career when he had to retire ill on 36 due to an upset stomach. The timing of his unexpected situation wasn't ideal either, for it came just when David Warner got out at the stroke of lunch.
"It came pretty suddenly, probably about five or ten minutes before Davey (Warner) got out. I asked (umpire) Richard (Kettleborough) how long there was till lunch, and he gave me the answer of half an hour. I was struggling a bit then," Renshaw said after the day's play.
Renshaw ran behind Warner, had a word with the incoming batsman and his skipper Steve Smith, came back in again, had a word with the umpires again, and finally ran back to the pavilion in a span of about five minutes of utter confusion.
"It was tough. I wasn't sure of the ruling. I didn't know you could retire ill, so I thought I'll just get out there and make sure I batted till lunch," he said. "I had to make sure of that ruling first before I ran off."
But despite being told by the umpires that he could retire ill, he still needed the nod of his captain.
"He wasn't too thrilled about it," Renshaw said of Smith's reaction.
"He didn't really understand what was going on at the start. I sort of just ran past him, he didn't really comprehend what was going on. I told him I needed the toilet. Obviously, we'd just lost a wicket so there would be two new batsmen out there. But it's a hard scenario to be in and he understood," he added.
Not many did, though. A host of former Australian players including Allan Border slammed Renshaw, calling him a bit soft in deciding to retire midway in his innings. The young lad came out again in the 60th over at the fall of Peter Handscomb's wicket, and scored a valuable 68 that played a big role in bringing some respectability into the Australian total.
The southpaw revealed what was going through his mind during his time in the dressing room.
"It was probably a couple of hours when I came back out. I felt quite bad knowing that I could be letting the team down, so that's why I went back out there. I wanted to do my bit for the team and wanted to make sure we had a pretty good day," he said.
India batting coach Sanjay Bangar, too, was sympathetic of the youngster.
"When you have to answer nature's call, no amount of will power or mind power can control that," Bangar said. "He had to go, probably he held back. But beyond a point, it wasn't controllable. Such incidents add to the colour of Test cricket."
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