Apart from Virat Kohli’s 5th double century and Ravichandran Ashwin’s fastest 300 wickets, there were three more batsmen who played an important role in India’s victory. The trio of opener Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma batted so well that the Lankan bowlers were left clueless on the field. Especially Murali Vijay who made sure that his comeback in the team should make a positive difference. He replaced Shikhar Dhawan in this game and did a fabulous job.
Vijay and Pujara added 209 runs for the 2nd wicket. This was 9th 100+ runs partnership between both the batsmen. Vijaya scored 128 runs from 221 balls while Pujara’s batting ended on 143. While fielding as well, these two batsmen seemed to be enjoying the situation and expressed it by doing a dab move.
Here’s the video:
From batting partnerships to the dab game – @cheteshwar_pujara and @mvj8 at it #INDvSL
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Since Dab is the newest way of celebrating a wicket for the Indian cricket team in Tests, how could the captain fearless skip this move?
Check him out:
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Well, this practice of performing a dab on the cricket field was introduced by KL Rahul during India’s tour to Sri Lanka in July-August 2017. In the first Test match itself, Rahul took a splendid catch at the short leg and was captured doing a dab.
Here’s the video:
And since then, it has become one of the signature moves of the Indian team to celebrate during Test matches.
In the second Test, India beat Sri Lanka by an inning and 293 runs and Virat Kohli received the Man of the Match award for his double century. The third and the last game is scheduled to be played at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi starting December 2.
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