India captain Rohit Sharma has given a number of hilarious one-liners during the ongoing Test series at home against England. The latest one came with some urgency on day 3 of the Ranchi Test as he asked his teammates to help him out while pondering over a DRS call.
During the 30th over of England’s second innings at the JSCA international stadium, Ben Stokes missed a ball from Ravindra Jadeja and it rapped the English skipper on his pads. The umpire Rod Tucker didn’t give it out.
Indian skipper Rohit Sharma was surrounded by a number of players, including Kuldeep Yadav, Dhruv Jurel, Rajat Patidar, and Shubman Gill, apart from Jadeja the bowler. Kuldeep was trying to explain something to Rohit while others remained silent.
Looking at the timer on the giant screen, Rohit Sharma told his players, “Kuch seconds baaki hain, sab log dimaag lagao (Only a few seconds left, put your heads together).”
This hilarious comment from Rohit was picked up by the stump mic and the commentators burst into laughter. Eventually, Rohit decided to take the review, but the Hawkeye said it was only clipping the leg-stump, meaning the on-field umpire’s call was upheld.
Watch: Rohit Sharma makes a hilarious statement to his players regarding DRS
“Le leta hai, Umpire sambhal lega” 🗣️
Rohit Sharma before taking DRS then smiles 😂#INDvENG #INDvsENG4thTest pic.twitter.com/rrlNdQCiSn— 𝕏 (@over89101) February 25, 2024
Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal get India’s chase going.
R Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav shared 9 wickts in England’s second innings as India bundled the visitors for 145, and since England had taken a first-innings lead of 46 runs, India were set a target of 192 runs.
In a tricky period of the last 25 minutes of the day, Rohit Sharma and Jaiswal took on the England spinners and scored 40 runs in 8 overs, the pair cracking 5 boundaries, four coming off Rohit’s bat.
India need 152 more runs to seal the series in Ranchi, before the 5th Test in Dharamsala.
