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Ravi Shastri Praises Sourav Ganguly for the Pink-ball Test, Twitterati React
By Shruti - Nov 27, 2019 8:00 am
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Indian head coach Ravi Shastri praised BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly for the recently concluded successful pink-ball Test match at the iconic Eden Gardens where Virat Kohi-led India showed an all-around performance against Bangladesh. The India bowling attack spearheaded by Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav hunted in packs as they first bowled out the Bangla Tigers within 106, then again bundled them within 195 in the second innings and to registered a convincing win. After the win, India are currently at the top of the points table of ICC World Test Championship.

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Ravi Shastri

However, Ravi Shastri took to Twitter and tweeted, “Great pink show in Kolkata. President @SGanguly99 ensured no stone was left unturned. Well done! #PinkBallTest #India #IndvsBan.” However, thi tweet garnered a lot of attention among the netizens and the Twitterati were quick to come up with a flurry of hilarious responses as well on Twitter.

 

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Here’s how Twitter reacted after Ravi Shastri praised Sourav Ganguly:

https://twitter.com/sagarcasm/status/1198584654778945536?s=20

https://twitter.com/absurd_bouy/status/1198590467736100864?s=20

Although India were asked to play day-night Test earlier as well when they had toured to Australia last year, they denied playing at that time. However, this time when Sourav Ganguly had pitched the idea of playing Test matches under the floodlights Virat Kohli, the Indian captain took no time to agree on that and after that the rest is history. The former Indian captain was thoroughly praised for making the historic pink-ball Test this successful.