As it turned out on Day 4 during the second test match between Bangladesh and India at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal were not just warm up or regular strikers of the Indian first innings. They were looking for teams valuable points in the World Test Championship.
After wasting two days to rain, India is looking to go into the WTC final which makes this result, if in their favour, much healthier for them.
Defending 235-run first innings lead, Jasprit Bumrah on the third day of the Test match found success on all of the three wickets he took to conclude the innings and hopes of Bangladesh getting more runs.
Then it was Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal who rained down the runs on the hapless Bangladeshi attack.
Jaiswal hit his first runs by hitting Hasan Mahmud for three consecutive boundaries first ball of his first over.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma then got in the act in the next over and smashed the first two balls that he faced from Khaled Ahmed with two back to back sixes. Jaiswal too struck the last ball of the over by Khaled Ahmed for a four.
In the next over, Rohit blasted a six off Hasan Mahmud’s bowling—much to the chagrin of the Indian batsmen—forgot the basic principles and trended too far off for a no-ball after an energetic start which had seen him take two wickets early on.
However, captain Jaiswal finished last over of the bowling spell from Hasan Mahmud in a fiery way hitting a six and two fours as team India made the record for the fastest team fifty in Test match cricket.
This was the first time a team managed to score 50 runs and over in just three overs of a Test match.
