Twitter reacts to Hardik Pandya's casual running that gifted SA an easy wicket

01/15/2018

When India needed Hardik Pandya to stay and support the skipper Virat Kohli, he threw away his wicket by casually jogging towards the danger end. But this did not have any effect on Kohli as he continued to steady the ship by scoring a brilliant 100 and help India cut the lead down to 29.

Brief Scores : South Africa 335 & 90/2 (AB de Villiers 50*, Dean Elgar 36; Jasprit Bumrah 2-19) lead India 307 (Virat Kohli 153, Murali Vijay 46; Morne Morkel 4-60, Vernon Philander 1/46) by 88 runs.

Here are the funny tweets from the game:

This is how we start the day! -_-

Hardik Pandya. Wowww!!

Bumrah hits headlines often for crossing the line, Pandya does for not crossing one !!. ScreenGrab courtesy Sony Ten 1.
— Prabhu 🏏 ‏ (@Cricprabhu)

Today Hardik Pandya proved he is more dumber than Alia Bhatt.
— Waѕiyullah Budye (@WasiyullahB)

But at least we got a record out of it. YAY!

This is the first time in history that the No. 3 and No. 7 batsmen of each side have been run out in their respective first innings of a Test.
— Abhishek Mukherjee (@ovshake42)

Scenes in the dressing room after Hardik Pandya returned!

Ravi Shastri & Hardik Pandya in the Dressing Room
— Hariharan Durairaj (@hari_durairaj)

This is me every month! :P

When you think that your salary has got you covered for the month
— knight watchman (@watchman_knight)

Learn from this Pandya!

Dear Learn how to Drag the bat during taking run from my 6 yr daughter
— HARESH (@hareshipca)

But thankfully the captain kept the hope alive!

Quite simply, one of the best innings I have seen from Kohli.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)

Interesting to hear Kohli on the stump mike literally counting down the deficit. This has been a crucial partnership but India need it to keep going given the batting prowess to follow.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)

Meanwhile Indian fans...

— Tabrez (@its_tabrez_4u)

Oh, what would we do without you, Virat Kohli!

Kohli as captain in Tests:

Home: 7 100s in 32 inns

Away: 7 100s in 22 inns
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)

And he is level with the great Don Bradman!

Most 150+ as Test Captain:

8 ~ Don Bradman

8 ~ Virat Kohli
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket)

But sadly India right now...

Kohli is playing like Tendulkar in the 1990s.

Unfortunately, the rest of the team is also playing like the rest of the team in the 1990s.
— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats)

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