On squarest of sq. turners, Shreyas Iyer defangs Sri Lankan spinners on Day One of Pink-ball Test
To the immeasurable silence of the stadium strode in Shreyas Iyer. The crowd favourite, Virat Kohli, had simply perished to a surprisingly low ball that had each him and the viewers praying for his 71st hundred equally shocked.
So silent that in the event you tuned your ears sharply, you would even hear the thud of Shreyas’s studs on the grass. But after 134 minutes of dazzling batting, after crunching 92 runs off 98 balls on a day no different batsman touched 40 on a bedevilled floor that spun, spat and shot and skidded, Shreyas returned to the pavilion to the deafening applause and light-weight from swaying smartphones flickering like glow-worms. (READ MORE)
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
