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[caption id="attachment_37542" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Australian media adds fuel to the fire on the brain fade incident. File Pic[/caption] Internet Desk: The ongoing controversy over Aussie skipper Steve Smith's controversial 'brain fade' is not willing to get over after both the cricket boards along with ICC have tried to draw a line over it. A report published in an Australian daily has added fuel to the fire as they have claimed making scathing attacks that coach Kumble and skipper Kohli confronted match officials and misbehaved with an Aussie official during the Bengaluru test throwing a bottle on him. The newspaper has claimed that Indian coach, Kumble, stormed into the umpires room 'to lodge a complaint'. "As Virat Kohli left a tornado of destruction behind him in the Indian dressing room, fuming he had been given out lbw, it's understood Kumble went to seek immediate clarification from match officials as to why his irate skipper was given out at a key moment of the second Test," said the report. "Kohli might be the aggressor in the brazen campaign India is running against Australia's integrity - even striking an Australian official with an orange Gatorade bottle - but coach Kumble, one of the main instigators of the Monkeygate fiasco, would appear to have reclaimed his role as the puppeteer behind the scenes," it added further. The new twist given by Australian media comes a day after Kohli was criticized by them for his aggression and was even dubbed as 'cricket's ultimate bully.' There are hardly any bilateral series between the two Test playing nations which are not mired into controversies both on and off-field and the recent chain of events are a testimony to the same.