Rohit Sharma, who is leading the Board President’s XI against South Africa, had a horrendous start as an opening batsman in red-ball cricket on Saturday.
On the third and final day of the ongoing practice match at Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex in Vizianagaram, Rohit came out to ꦛopen the innings with Mayank Agarwal but his stay at the crease lasted for just two balls.
In the second over of the innings, Rohit was caught by Heinrich Klaasen on the bowling of🤪 Vernon Philander.
Earlier, South Africa declared their first innings at 279/6 as soon as Philander fell 2 short of a well-deserved half-century. Temba Bavuma remainꦓed unbeaten on 87 off 127 balls and must be high on confidence ahead o𒈔f the 3-Test series next month.
After Rohit’s dismal show with the bat in the practice game, netizens started trolling the 32-year-old.
Rohit Sharma fall 200 runs short from smashing a Double C🦄entury!🤔
— Bhavya Shah (@BhavyaShah2612)
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Don't know which is more funny – Rohit opening in tests and getting out on duck or Rohit opening in tests
— N (@_PushTheLines)
OMG Rohit Sharma. 😂😂😂
The select🏅ors are going to be reꩵally worried about this.
Second ball duck in this new opening experiment.
RG Sharma c Klaassen b Philander 0 (2)
And Abhimanyu Eas❀waran, who should be in the test squad, comes ou⛄t to bat. Might as well opened.
— Vinod Ramnath (@NaanumEngineer)
Bwahahahahahaahahah
— Dr.Raghu (@Raghu610)
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🐎Mark my words. will definitely fail all the time 9 out of 10 times as an opener. Likh k lele de sakta hun . 🤣🤣😂 Poor
— Jayanta Kar (@Jayantakar0)
Captain Rohit 💞Sharma Out for a Duck While Opening The Test Innings. 😆
Sunny Bhai Should Have a Word With Rohit Bhai. 😅
— ArunachalaM (@ArunbuddyAP)
//twitter.com/prakath♏i_18/status/1177825304116꧂465664
Ro masterclass 😍😍😍 … 0 Runs 2 Balls ….
Missed triple century by just 300 Runs
well Played
— Rahul 🇮🇳 (@Rahul__Tweet)
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