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Ravi Shastri’s energetic introduction to the Adelaide Test at the toss time left India captain Rohit Sharma in splits.
Ravi Shastri (left) was quite entertaining during the toss time. (Screengrab)
Expect nothing but entertainment when Ravi Shastri is on the mic. His “tracer bullets” comments when on air are stuff of legends and his toss time presentations have a place of their own. And his energetic introduction to the Adelaide Test between India and Australia left Rohit Sharma highly amused as he eventually lost control before bursting into laughter.
And watching India captain Rohit laugh, his Australian counterpart Pat Cummins followed the suit even as Shastri continued his theatrics providing wholesome entertainment much before the first ball was bowled in Adelaide.
Rohit missed India’s big win over Australia in the series opening Test in Perth due to personal reasons. He though landed in Australia just in time to watch his teammates engineer a remarkable turnaround to crush Australia by 295 runs and take 1-0 in the five-match series.
“We’ve played a really good Test match in Perth, it was superb to watch from the outside. What the boys did was superb. It’s a long series, we just want to focus on how we can get the results in our favour,” Rohit said at the toss.
Rohit won the toss and opted to bat first in the day-night contest at the Adelaide Oval. It was Australian team that made a sensational start to the contest when Mitchell Starc trapped opener Yashasvi Jaiswal LBW with the first delivery of the match.
India made a brief recovery through KL Rahul and Shubman Gill before Starc landed more blows. He eventually finished with a six-wicket haul as India were bowled out for 180. Australia then made a solid start to their first innings despite losing Usman Khawaja cheaply. The hosts were 86/1 at stumps, trailing India by 94 runs.
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Adelaide (Australia)
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