The Indian skipper, Virat Kohli has always been known to lead by example and in the process, he ends up earning a lot of praise from not only his teammates but from the opposition players as well. The Indian skipper charmed social media again after a video of Bangladesh bowler Ebadot Hossain applauding Kohli’s well-timed cover drive went viral on Twitter.
The incident happened during the first day of the second Test — the historic first-ever pink ball Test for India and Bangladesh — at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. Here is the video of the incident.
This is called class. King kohli is cover drive specialist #KingKohli pic.twitter.com/CYb3Bxcqio
— Bannu nara (@bannu_nara) November 22, 2019
Under the floodlights, Kohli’s batting did not look to deter as with the pink ball, as he was in the attack mode. Here is the compilations on Kohli’s drives on Day 1.
Kohli's cover drive…!!https://t.co/lWHySJSAoS
— Cricket Videos (@CricketVideos15) November 23, 2019
After dismissing Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara for 21 and 55 respectively, Ebadot Hossain was seen clapping for Virat after being hit for a boundary on the fourth ball of the 17th over. The Indian skipper timed the shot with the middle of his bat to delight the Kolkata crowd with a classic cover drive.
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Besides the crowd, Ebadot too couldn’t resist applauding the modern master. Kohli was not out on 59 at stumps on Day 1 with Ajinkya Rahane unbeaten on 23 as India reached 174/3, leading Bangladesh by 68 runs. He scored eight boundaries in his 93-ball knock.
Earlier, Al-Amin Hossain gave Bangladesh an early breakthrough with the wicket of Mayank Agarwal in the fifth over. Ishant Sharma claimed a five-wicket haul to help the hosts bowl out Bangladesh for 106 inside 30.3 overs. Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami shared five wickets among them in India’s impressive debut in the day-night Test cricket.
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Opener Shadman Islam was the highest run-scorer for Bangladesh with 29 runs as they lost eight of their batsmen for a single-digit score.
