David Warner used the stump mic during the second Test between Australia and Sri Lanka to ask journalist and commentator Geoff Lemon to sit down after complaints that his bright yellow shirt was distracting Sri Lanka's batters.
"Broadcast, can you tell Geoff Lemon to sit down in the yellow? The batsman is frustrated, please," Warner could be heard saying.
Commentator and former Sri Lankan batter Russel Arnold could not contain his laughter in response to Warner's comments, with the cameras quickly panning to Lemon in a bright yellow shirt in the media centre.
"That's Geoff Lemon," Arnold commented. "He can afford to stand [now] because they're bowling from the other end!"
Lemon, who is commentating on the series for SEN radio, posted a video of the moment on Twitter, joking: "Actually, David, it's more of a beige and cinnamon". He also spoke about it on ' The Final Word Daily ' podcast, adding: "I like to stand up when I do commentary, I feel like I have more energy that way and I'm speaking with a bit more oomph.
"I've been doing that for the whole Test match, the whole Test series ... hasn't been a problem. You talk about players being distracted by things that are nowhere near the sight screen, we're a level up above the sight screen.
"I'd been there all day with [Steve] Smith and [Marnus] Labuschagne [batting], no problems at all, and just with the angle of Mitchell Starc, suddenly Angelo Mathews decides 'I don't like that guy standing up about ten metres above the sight screen who I can now see through a window'.
"So they've held up play and Mitchell Starc's pointing up there and I'm like 'there's obviously someone down this end who's annoying them and it looks like he's pointing at me'. And I'm saying this on air, like there's no way he's pointing at me, he can't be pointing at me.
"I'm inside, there's a window, there'll be reflections. And I thought just for an experiment I'm going to sit down and see what happens and he went 'finally' and then turned around and bowled and I'm like 'oh s***'."
