England’s team, which came to India with bazball, had a bad condition on the first day of the first Test match. The bazball that England had made a fuss about, the Indian team took it out. Seeing the condition of England, South African batsman AB de Villiers taunted him. Virat Kohli’s close friend taught the visiting team a cricket lesson.
England scored 246 runs in the first innings on the first day of the first cricket Test against India on Thursday. Captain Ben Stokes scored 70 runs for England. Johnny Bairstow scored 37 while Ben Duckett scored 35 runs. For India, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja took three wickets each while Jaspreet Bumrah and Akshar Patel took two wickets each.
AB de Villiers Tweeted
AB de Villiers tweeted, “India are playing at 8/9 runs per over. You don’t have to call it brave, bold, or bazball. It’s just about playing according to the situation. Identifying opportunities in a Test match so that you can get ahead in the match is everything. When the momentum shifts, you wait for such a time.”
“At the end of the day, if you don’t respect different situations or don’t understand the meaning of momentum shifting, it will hurt you. No matter what ball you’re playing.” He also shared an eye-winking emoji (😉) at the end of this tweet, which clearly showed that he was taunting England’s Bazball thinking.
India in the driving seat
In reply to England’s innings, India scored 119 runs for one wicket. England managed to score 246 runs on the board in the first innings. India now trails England by 127 runs with nine wickets in hand. At the end of the day’s play, Yashasvi Jaiswal was playing 76 while Shubman Gill was playing 14 runs. Captain Rohit Sharma became the victim of Jack Leach after scoring 24 runs.
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