Pink ball test: As it happened
Joyous Netizens flooded with celebratory tweets and posts as India plays it’s historic first Pink Ball test at Eden Gardens vS Bangladesh.
Netizens took to Twitter to express their happiness over the historic event which got doubled as India Bamboozled Bangladesh for mere 106. Tweets with the caption “Pink ball test” and “IndVban” have been trending on the site, ever since.
Few feats, no better place to come this but at Eden Gardens
BCCI @BCCI 100 dismissals and counting for @Wriddhipops in the longest format of the game #PinkBallTest
Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha
The bowling has been excellent again but @Wriddhipops has been simply sensational behind the stumps.
Mohandas Menon @mohanstatsman
for Cheteshwar Pujara today at Eden Gardens…
– 50 catches in Tests
– 15000 first-class runs
#IndvBan #IndvsBan
#pinkball
#pinkballTest
Ishant Sharma claimed a 9-fer
Mohandas Menon @mohanstatsman
The last occasion Ishant Sharma claimed a five wicket haul at home – nearly 12 years ago at Bangalore in Dec 2007 against Pak.He was then playing his only 2nd Test match of his career and was just 19 years! Today he is playing his 96th Test match!
#IndvBan #IndvsBan
#pinkball
@BCCI
A pumped up @ImIshant after he picks up his 5-wkt haul in the #PinkBallTest.
#TeamIndia Pacers have bowled out Bangladesh for 106 runs in the first inning.
After Liton Das, Mohammed Shami pings Nayeem Hasan on the helmet
Gaurav Kalra @gauravkalra75
hey shami, its only a different coloured cricket ball, not a murder weapon #INDvBAN #PinkBallTest
@BCCI
In the end, it’s all about the #SpiritOfCricket. #TeamIndia physio, Mr. Nitin Patel attends to Nayeem after he gets hit on the helmet.
#PinkBallTest
Soon, Nayeem Hasan has been also replaced by Taijul Islam.
Vikram Sathaye @vikramsathaye
I think it’s unfair on this Bangladeshi team to face our fast bowlers. There has to be Level A and Level B in test cricket. #INDvsBAN
Bharath Seervi @SeerviBharath
Concussion sub in Tests:
Labuschagne for Smith v Aus, Lord’s
Blackwood for Darren Bravo v Ind, Kingston
De Bruyn for Elgar v Ind, Ranchi
Mehidy Hasan for Liton Das v Ind, Kolkata
Taijul Islam for Nayeem Hasan, Kolkata
#IndvBan
Indian pace trio bundled out Bangladesh @106
Deepu Narayanan @deeputalks
Shortest 1st innings of a Test in India
20.0 Ind v SA Ahmedabad 2007/08
27.0 Ind v NZ Mohali 1999/00
30.3 Ban v Ind Kolkata 2019/20 *
30.5 Ind v WI Delhi 1987/88
Previous shortest by a visiting side: 49.1 overs by Pak, Bengaluru, 1986/87 (Pak won by 16 runs)
Deepu Narayanan @deeputalks
Indian seamers taking all ten wickets in an innings in home Tests
vs Eng Mumbai WS 1981/82
vs WI Ahmedabad 1983/84
vs SL Kolkata 2017/18
vs Ban Kolkata 2019/20 *
Aniket Mishra @aniketmishra299
1998, IND v AUS at Eden – Amazing win for us but what is oft forgotten is we played with 3 spinners with Ganguly opening the bowling. Without taking anything away from Dada, super proud to see the 3 seamers taking all wickets today. Safe to say, we have come a long way in that dept.
Aakash Chopra @cricketaakash
More than anything else TEST cricket is crying for a ConTEST. #IndvBan
Swag at Edens
Abhideep Das @Sportingabhi
There may be PM of a nation and CM of a state along with the biggest name in world cricket present at #EdenGardens, but there’s only one ‘Moharaj’ in City of Joy. The roof came down when the cameras showed DADA briefly on the big screen!
#PinkBallTest #IndvBan
BCCI @BCCI
A galaxy of Indian stars both present and former greats take a lap of the Eden Gardens on this historic moment of India’s first-ever #PinkBallTest #INDvBAN #TeamIndia
Kohli does his routine: setting records
Mohandas Menon @mohanstatsman
Nov 22
5000 Test runs as captain for Virat Kohli, the sixth captain to reach this landmark. Also becomes the quickest to reach the tally in 86 innings!
#IndvBan #IndvsBan
#pinkball
#pinkballTest
Deepu Narayanan @deeputalks
Test 100s in all five major Test centres of India – Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru & Delhi
Gundappa Viswanath
Sunil Gavaskar
Sachin Tendulkar
Virat Kohli
#INDvBAN #PinkBallTest
Rajneesh Gupta @rgcricket
Most 100s in international cricket (Tests/ODIs/T20Is) as captain:
41 Virat Kohli (in 188 innings)
41 Ricky Ponting (in 376 innings)
33 Graeme Smith (in 368 innings)
#PinkBallTest
#PinkBall
#INDvBAN
Fewest innings taken to 27 Test hundreds:
70 Don Bradman
141 Sachin Tendulkar
141 Virat Kohli
154 Sunil Gavaskar
157 Matthew Hayden
#PinkBallTest
#PinkBall
#INDvBAN
Fans at Eden Gardens, courtesy @VVSLaxman281
Boria Majumdar @BoriaMajumdar
Just one simple fact: against this Bangladesh team had it been the conventional red ball test match there would not even be 5000 people watching it. Yest we had 70k. Sport without fans is just an incomplete exercise and for too long fans have been taken for granted.
Cricketwallah @cricketwallah
Never mind how the match has panned out (as yet), great show @SGanguly99
It all ends up to this
Bharath Seervi @SeerviBharath
HISTORY:
India became the first side ever to win 4 consecutive Tests by margin of an innings.
Not the West Indies of 1980s, not the Aussies of 2000s, but it is the Indian team of the current generation to have achieved it, under Virat Kohli. ??? Congrats.
Bharath Seervi @SeerviBharath
India’s last 4 Tests:
v SA, Pune – Inns & 137 runs
v SA, Ranchi – Inns & 202 runs
v Ban, Indore – Inns & 130 runs
v Ban, Kolkata – Inns & 46 runs
#IndvBan
Ajinkya Rahane @ajinkyarahane88
Privileged to be a part of the #PinkBallTest, was a great experience to play the game in front of a packed Eden Gardens crowd.
Thank you @BCCI & CAB for promoting the D/N Test in India. And a big cheers to our pace bowling trio who took all the wickets in this game. #INDvBAN
Sanjay Manjrekar @sanjaymanjrekar
Winning by spin is fun but winning by pace is more fun!
#IndianCricket
Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha
Four years ago, against South Africa, India’s spinners took 61 wickets to 9 for the quicks. In this series, spin got but 5 (none in this test) vs 33 to pace. The times, they are a changin’!
And the deserved MOM trophy
Paytm @Paytm
9/78 from @ImIshant & it’s all over in India’s first-ever #PinkBallTest at Kolkata! ?Here’s Rudra Dalmia, Executive Director, @PaytmMall handing over a well-deserved Paytm Man of the Match to Ishant Sharma.#INDvBAN @BCCI
So, the history has been made. The first pink ball test in India saw everything, the crowd, the mood, the swag, the josh and the sheer dominance of team India. The Bangladesh team had done for what they were invited, be the guest, take part in a match and for the highest be part of a historic moment. But all of this wouldn’t have been possible without 1 person, Sourav ‘Dada’ Ganguly. Thank you.
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