Though India’s captain Rohit Sharma has entered the twilight stage of his enjoying profession, his agility does not present indicators of slowing down any time quickly. The 36-year-old as soon as once more showcased an exhibition of his lightning-fast reflexes on Monday when he plucked a catch out of skinny air in simply 0.45 seconds to dismiss Ollie Pope within the ongoing Vizag Test.
The incident unfolded on the second supply of the twenty eighth over. Operating from across the wicket, Ashwin angled the ball away from Pope. The English batter tried to play a reduce shot off the backfoot however ended up slicing it too fantastic than what he needed.
The ball kissed the surface fringe of his willow’s higher half and travelled swiftly in the direction of the left of Rohit. The India captain abruptly lunged at his weaker aspect and caught it with each arms to leave Pope dazed.
Watch Rohit Sharma’s beautiful catch:
What made Rohit’s catch extra particular was the truth that the ball travelled to him in simply 0.45 seconds so he actually had no time to react. Despite that, Rohit saved a peaceful head and let his reflexes take over. Pope’s wicket introduced immense pleasure and self-belief within the Indian camp as he was threatening to take the sport away from the hosts.
India’s enjoying XI:
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Rajat Patidar, Srikar Bharat (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mukesh Kumar
Bench:
Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Sarfaraz Khan, Avesh Khan, Saurabh Kumar, Dhruv Jurel
Support workers:
Rahul Dravid, Vikram Rathour, Paras Mhambrey
England’s enjoying XI:
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson
Bench:
Mark Wood, Ollie Robinson, Daniel Lawrence, Gus Atkinson
Support workers:
Brendon McCullum, Paul Collingwood, Marcus Trescothick, Jeetan Patel, Neil Killeen
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