Ravi Shastri and Tamim Iqbal shared a silly abet-and-forth while on air in the India-Bangladesh Check.
Hindustan Times
21 September, 2024, 05:00 pm
Final modified: 22 September, 2024, 09:06 pm
Ravi Shastri and Tamim Iqbal shared a moment of banter while on commentary duties in the continuing India vs Bangladesh Check match in Chennai, with the faded India coach and Bangladesh opener buying and selling verbal jabs in a silly conversation.
With India working away with the match in the morning session of the third day, Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill bear been taking the attack to Bangladesh’s spinners, with every having a behold to step out and hit huge sixes.
The energy-packed batting on reward introduced about a dialogue on six-hitting technique between Shastri and Iqbal, with the Bangladesh opener arguing for the importance of energy and muscle required to ranking maximums in Check match cricket, bringing up Pant’s use of the bottom hand.
In the identical vein, Shastri debated Tamim’s point of peep by claiming that it used to be more a topic of technique, bringing up how valuable the switch of weight and head assign used to be in every of Pant and Gill’s sixes.
‘You hit the most sixes for Bangladesh!’
After going over this debate, Ravi Shastri had the closing snicker on air as he introduced up his trump card: “Why are you complaining? You’re no longer Arnold Schwarzenegger, and likewise you hit the most sixes for Bangladesh! 41 sixes!”
Tamim Iqbal retired from every form of international cricket in 2023, having completed his Check profession with 5134 runs in 134 innings, and does indeed stand as Bangladesh’s top six-hitter with 41 maximums. He’s six determined of Mushfiqur Rahim in 2nd assign.
Shastri himself used to be no slide in the six-hitting division either, with 22 in 121 innings.
Shubman Gill already sits on 27 Check sixes in forty eight innings, while Rishabh Pant is mercurial mountain climbing up the ranks for India, with an excellent 59 sixes in honest 58 innings, averaging over one most every innings. He’s already seventh for India, with Virender Sehwag the leader with 90 sixes in Check cricket.
