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Indian captain Rohit Sharma seemed thrilled when Bangladesh’s Jaker Ali dropped KL Rahul within the 2025 Champions Trophy opener. Watch the viral second.
Snippet from Rohit Sharma’s response to KL Rahul’s drop. (Screengrab)
Indian captain Rohit Sharma was one of many happiest among the many hundreds gathered on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium when Bangladesh’s Jaker Ali dropped wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul within the deep for simply 9 runs of their 2025 Champions Trophy opener on Thursday.
Rohit, who had dropped Jaker within the first innings on all-rounder Axar Patel’s hat-trick ball, pointed on the fielder after the drop and gave the impression to be having fun with the second when the cameras panned at him. Movies of the second have now gone viral on social media. Watch a few them under:
Rohit was pissed off with himself when he couldn’t catch an easy edge off Jaker’s bat within the ninth over to provide Patel his first worldwide and India’s first Champions Trophy hat-trick. He was even seen beating the bottom 5 or 6 instances in anger earlier than apologizing to Patel.
Jaker went on to attain 68 (114) to assist Bangladesh attain 228 from 35/5 on the time of the drop. Towhid Hridoy scored a century on the opposite finish after additionally being dropped in his 20s, that point by Hardik Pandya.
“No, that was a straightforward catch, I ought to have taken that catch with the requirements I’ve set for myself. However I do know this stuff are certain to occur. Credit score to Hridoy and Jaker, they stitched a pleasant partnership,” Rohit mentioned, as quoted by Cricbuzz, after the match.
Within the second innings, Jaker’s drop off Rahul’s bat additionally got here at a equally necessary second for India. The Males in Blue had misplaced 4 wickets for 144 runs with Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and Patel all failing to transform their begins as a consequence of poor pictures to get out.
Rahul tried to pressure the tempo, too, making an attempt to energy via a flick shot towards Taskin Ahmed on the second ball of the thirty seventh over, solely to mistime it to Jaker within the deep who obtained each fingers to it however couldn’t maintain on. Had India misplaced one other wicket at that stage, it might need put further strain on Shubman Gill on the different finish.
However Rahul went on to attain 41 (47) and Gill notched 101, with the duo remaining unbeaten to see India via.