You couldn't dream of a more fitting baptism to the bubbling cauldron that is Test Cricket Tour of India than what befell rookie Australian opener Matt Renshaw in his first innings. Despite finding form with the willow, the 20 year old was struck down by an old sub-continental favourite while at the crease, diarrhea, forcing him to sprint from the field or face certainly shitting himself live on camera.He was on 36 (from 89 balls) when he realised his sphincter was not up to the task of holding this watery demon. So he took off for the toilet, sprinting past a perplexed Australian captain, Steve Smith, on the way.
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"Steve was good and he understands when you need to go to the toilet, you have to go to the toilet," said Renshaw afterwards."He didn't really understand what was going on at the start, I sort of just ran past him … he called me back and he wanted to have a discussion with me but I just told him I had to go off."He wasn't too thrilled … but we've had a chat now, we're all good," he said.Renshaw, who just a few days into his first trip to India, returned to the crease later in the innings and compiled the highest score in the Australian innings, 68.Australian cricketing legend, Allan Border, was not impressed, however. The hard-as-nails former Australian captain and veteran of countless sub-continental tours (and, presumably, compromised bowel scenarios), said, by implication, he'd rather if Renshaw had shat himself at the crease."I hope he's lying on the table in there half dead," said Border on the Fox Sports telecast. "Otherwise, as captain, I would not be happy.""I don't think I've ever seen that before. He's obviously just got an upset stomach to some degree and he was probably trying to use the situation where David Warner had just been dismissed to race off the ground and go to the toilet," he said.In fairness, this is the guy who set the all-time record for the most consecutive Test matches in history (153). And who famously referred to Australian batsman, Dean Jones, as a "weak Victorian" during the 1986 tied-test in Chennai when, after making 202 runs not out, Jones claimed to be too sick to bat any longer. The "weak Victorian" was sent back out anyway, despite urinating involuntarily and vomiting, adding an extra eight runs before he was dismissed. Jones was later put on a saline drip.UPDATE: Renshaw is back at the crease in the second innings and spewing his guts up.