During the second T20I in Chennai, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri humorously criticized England's Harry Brook after he was clean bowled by Varun Chakravarthy. They made light of Brook's previous complaint about smog in Kolkata affecting visibility, noting the clear conditions in Chennai.
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