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On Day 3 of the second India versus England Test match, Indian captain Rohit Sharma was spotted hilariously mocking Kuldeep Yadav after he didn’t take his wrong advice to go for the DRS. The moment happened in the final session when England began a daunting run chase of 399 runs in Visakhapatnam to go 2-0 up in the five-match series.
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At the Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, when Jasprit Bumrah went past the bat of Zak Crawley in England’s second innings, the Indian players appealed in unison to the on-field umpire. When the decision didn’t go in India’s favour, Kuldeep Yadav seemingly pleaded to Rohit Sharma to take the review, because he felt that Zak Crawley had nicked the ball through to the wicket-keeper KS Bharat.
The Indian captain vehemently denied the request of Kuldeep Yadav for DRS, and the replays on the giant screen inside the stadium showed that the English opening batter didn’t nick the ball. It led to Rohit Sharma hilariously clapping and giving a thumbs up to his left-arm unorthodox spinner, smiling away after not wasting a review due to him.
Here is how Rohit Sharma hilariously mocked Kuldeep Yadav:
KS Bharat takes sharp catch of Ben Duckett to get Indian on the board in second innings
In defence of the 399-run total, the Indian bowlers had to work hard in the early stages of England’s second innings in the final session of Day 3. Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley stitched together yet another fifty-run stand for the first wicket to give England a good start in their record run chase in India.
But just a couple of balls later, Ravichandran Ashwin got India their first breakthrough in Ben Duckett. The left-handed batter was prodding on the front foot to defend a good length ball, but he could only balloon it off the inside edge onto the pads towards the leg side before KS Bharat put in a full-length dive to complete a quality catch.
Here is KS Bharat's sharp catch to dismiss Ben Duckett: