Rohit Sharma‘s lean patch at the top of the order in Tests remain as he was denied for other low score. However, this time the Indian opener player didn’t throw his wicket far away as he received an complete peach of a supply from England’s left-arm off-spinner Jack Leach.
The left-armer establish Rohit Sharma superbly by first pitching a set of balls just on the off-stump line. He bowled the next ball on the leg-stump and Rohit tried to screen the line of the ball. But it set up and spun just sufficient to beat the 33-year-old’s defend and hit his off-stump.
Rohit Sharma standing there for a few moments in disbelief, having a look at where the ball had pitched. Leach, on the vice versa, was rapturous and so were the other England players as they knew how big a wicket this was.
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Here you can see a video of the extraordinary delivery from the England spinner that got the best of Rohit Sharma:
IND vs ENG 2021, 1st Test, Day 4: Rohit Sharma Wicket https://t.co/ULUlf37yHG # via @bcci
— dr parag (@ParagDr) February 8, 2021
Rohit Sharma’s wicket cap off a great day for England
A beauty from @jackleach1991 🌰
Scorecard: https://t.co/kNB0swv6FW#INDvENG pic.twitter.com/yJtj9nbTt7
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) February 8, 2021
The visitors would be glad to be in the place they are in finally of Day 4. The third day’s play started with Team India 6 wickets clean. Even though Washington Sundar played an all right innings of 85*, England managed to get a massive first-innings lead of 241 runs.
Unexpectedly enough, with the exclusion of Joe Root, no one else from the tourists showed enough urgently to score rapid runs. Instead, England played their entire second innings and were bowled out for 178, with Ravichandran Ashwin picking up 6 wickets.
With about couple of minutes left in the day, Indian opener Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill had a job on get their hands to see off the new ball.
It's Stumps on Day 4 of the first @Paytm #INDvENG Test!
@RealShubmanGill 1⃣5⃣*@cheteshwar1 1⃣2⃣*
Jack Leach 1/21Join us for an action-packed Day 5 tomorrow!
Scorecard 👉 https://t.co/VJF6Q62aTS pic.twitter.com/loYkQIvmhY
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 8, 2021
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