2024-10-02 04:30:34
New Delhi: Rain had spoiled the mood for the first three days in the Kanpur Test, but when the fourth day’s play started, Team India was in for a storm. Our batsmen swung the bat in such a way that all the records of world cricket were broken. The combination of captain Rohit Sharma and coach Gautam Gambhir is showing more attacking cricket than baseball. The Test match which till yesterday seemed to be washed away in the rain, is now in India’s control after the end of the fourth day’s play.
India’s own baseball
51 runs in 3 overs. 100 runs in 10.1 overs. 150 runs in 18.2 overs. 200 runs in 25 overs. No team has ever batted so fast in the history of Test cricket. There has never been such an occasion in history when an innings was declared for the first time in just 34 overs. Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir are blowing the baseball game by taking such bold decisions. After the end of the fourth day’s play, Bangladesh lost two wickets for just 26 runs in its second innings. India has a lead of 26 runs.
T-20 style batting in test match
After two days of bad weather, there was sunshine in Kanpur today. No play could take place on the second and third days. Bangladesh started its first day’s play with a score of 107 runs and ended up at 233 runs. After this the Indian batsmen started batting in T-20 style. He made the record of fastest 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 runs in Test cricket and declared his first innings at 285 runs after losing nine wickets in just 34.4 overs, taking a lead of 52 runs. For India, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the highest score of 72 runs in 51 balls. India scored at a rate of above eight per over. India batted with T-20 attitude. India completed 50 runs in the third over itself, which was a world record, after which all the records were broken.
This is how Bangladesh’s first innings ended
Playing ahead at 107 runs for three wickets on the first day, Mushfiqur Rahim (11) was clean bowled by Jasprit Bumrah in the sixth over, after which there was a flurry of wickets. Jasprit Bumrah took three wickets while Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep and Ravi Ashwin took two wickets each, reducing Bangladesh to 233 runs. Mominul completed his 13th century, but he could not get help from the other end. Ravindra Jadeja became the seventh Indian bowler to take 300 wickets. He also became the second fastest player after England’s Ian Botham to complete 300 Test wickets and 3000 Test runs.