WATCH: Sarfaraz Khan and Shoaib Bashir’s hilarious conversation caught on stump-mic
Shoaib Bashir (Source-Twitter)
The fourth Test match of England’s tour of India in Ranchi is turning out to be yet another amazing contest. England have their noses ahead against India as we enter the third day. Shoaib Bashir was the man who dented the Indian batting with four wickets.
During the second day’s play, there was a hilarious moment which took place. Sarfaraz Khan was fielding at silly point when Shoaib Bashir came out to bat. The Indian could be heard saying to Dhruv Jurel, “Isko Hindi bhi nahi aati, chalo badhiya hai.”
Sarfaraz Khan – isko to Hindi nahi aati hain (he doesn't know Hindi).
Shoaib Bashir – Thodi thodi aati hain Hindi (I know a bit of Hindi).@BCCI #INDvsENGTest #SarfarazKhan pic.twitter.com/TRI0esZHYQ
— Cric Crazy (@CHANCHA55457263) February 24, 2024
Shoaib Bashir without batting an eyelid was quick to reply, “Thodi Thodi aati hai”. The two players could be seen smiling after the exchange took. Ravindra Jadeja took the wicket of Bashir as he was caught by Rajat Patidar.
Experts unhappy with Ranchi Test pitch –
England were bowled out for 353 and Shoaib Bashir then showed his talent with four wickets. Team India ended the day at 219/7 with Dhruv Jurel and Kuldeep Yadav batting together.
Paras Mhambrey the Indian bowling coach said, “There are no specific instructions from our side that we want to play a rank turner. We expected it to be similar to how we played it in Saurashtra, but the soil here is different. You cannot guarantee the exact wicket that you want”. The comments were made at the end of the day on Saturday.
The former India bowler also said, “Generally, the nature of the wicket here is that it gets slower and lower so we expected that. But to be honest we didn’t expect it to be playing that low on the 2nd day itself. A couple of balls did keep low in the 1st innings, but that’s what we didn’t expect. We expected it to get slower and lower but not the variable bounce.”
Former England skipper Michael Vaughan took to Twitter and wrote “India have completely brought England into the game preparing a pitch like this. Much appreciated”. Even the commentators were surprised with the way the surface has been playing since the game began.
At the time of writing, Team India had scored 250 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. Dhruv Jurel was batting on 46 runs from 89 balls while Kuldeep Yadav was on 28 runs.
