‘Mazaakiyaan andaaz kayam hai’ – Fans react as Rohit Sharma mentions two back-to-back ducks to on-field umpire during third T20I

Ahead of the ongoing third and last T20I between India and Afghanistan, Rohit Sharma had two back-to-back ducks. In the game, the home team, India won the toss and elected to bat first for the first time in the series. In the first over, Yashasvi Jaiswal took the strike on the first ball and took a three. In the second ball of the game, Sharma scored a boundary.

However, on-field umpire Virender Sharma signaled leg bye. Even the commentators were shocked with the decision and the replays suggested why it was the case. Ahead of the second over, Virender towards the square leg. During this, the India skipper spoke to Virender about the latter’s umpiring blunder.

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Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh hold the key for India

Meanwhile, in the game, the Men In Blue had a poor start. Fareed Ahmad, who is playing his first game of the series, took the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli back-to-back in the third over of the innings. In the fourth over, Azmatullah Omarzai took the wicket of in-form Shivam Dube, followed by Sanju Samson’s wicket by Ahmad. On 22/4, Rinku Singh joined his captain and put together 70 off 50 balls and counting.

Sharma is close to his fifty while Singh has started to play some shots and taking singles at this point as well. Talking about the playing XI, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, and Jitesh Sharma have been rested. Sanju, Avesh, and Kuldeep have come in.

India: Rohit (capt), Jaiswal, Kohli, Samson (wk), Dube, Rinku, Washington, Kuldeep, Avesh, Bishnoi, Mukesh

Afghanistan: Gurbaz (wk), Zadran, Naib, Omarzai, Nabi, Najibullah, Janat, Sharafuddin, Qais, Saleem Safi, Fareed

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