Virat Kohli slams Steve Smith in press conference over Australia's sneaky DRS tactics

Bengaluru: India skipper Virat Kohli slammed Australia after his side’s 75-run win in the second of the four-match Test series at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru, alleging that he saw players from the visiting side looking to the dressing room for help with DRS referrals.

The Bengaluru Test ended amidst controversy, with DRS taking centre stage once again.

Australia, who seemed to be cruising at 74 for three (with the target being 188), suddenly found themselves in a spot of bother, as Umesh Yadav trapped Smith lbw with a low delivery.

Smith and his partner appeared to have been looking towards their dressing room, in order to ask for help with whether to refer the lbw decision to the third umpire.

"I got hit on the pad and looked down to Petey (Peter Handscomb) and he said look up there, so I turned around and it was a bit of a brain fade on my behalf. I shouldn't have done that," Smith said in the post-match press conference after the Bengaluru Test.

"I was looking at our boys, so shouldn't have done that," added the Australian skipper.

However Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara had reportedly spotted the Aussie skipper looking towards the dressing room for help (taking help from the dressing room for DRS referrals is illegal), something that they immediately pointed out to the umpires, who immediately rushed in to diffuse the situation.

Kohli, after the match, went on to allege that he had seen the Australian players look to their dressing room for DRS help on two occasions.

“I saw that two times happening when I was batting out there. I pointed it out to the umpire as well and it has happened twice I have seen their players looking upstairs for confirmation and that’s why the umpire was at him,” said Kohli.

“When he (Smith) turned back, the umpires knew exactly what was going on, because we observed that, told match referee also and the umpires that they have been doing that for the last three days and this has to stop,” he said.

“Because there is a line you don’t cross on the cricket field. Sledging and playing against the opponent is different. I don’t want mention the word but that falls under that bracket. I would never do something like that on the cricket field,” said Kohli.

Asked if the word, which he refused to utter, was cheating, Kohli said: “I did not say that you did.”