The Payback for Mohammed Siraj Following the Litton Das Gesture Do Not Miss Virat Kohli

On Thursday evening in Chattogram, the second day of the first cricket test between India and Bangladesh, the Indian cricket team finished the day in a good position. At the end of the second day of play, the home side had scored 133 runs with eight wickets remaining in response to India’s first innings total of 404. Kuldeep Yadav, a spinner, took four wickets for thirty-three runs, and Mohammed Siraj, a fast bowler, took three wickets for fourteen runs.

There were also a handful of incidences involving sledging, with one involving Siraj and Bangladesh’s Litton Das being the one that garnered the most attention. It occurred during the evening session of the day during the 14th over of Bangladesh’s innings.

Litton Das was on 24 at the time, and up to that point, he had not scored a run in the third session. After bowling the first ball of the 14th over, Siraj approached Litton and communicated with him. Litton was standing nearby.

Das signalled cheekily that he didn’t hear anything while marching towards the India pacer in response to Siraj’s jab while Siraj was sledging him. The umpire took action and kicked Siraj out of the match.

The very next ball, Mohammed Siraj bowled Das with a delivery that tucked back in, which caused Das to lose his wicket. Virat Kohli, who was also celebrating, mimicked the cheeky motion that Litton had made during the celebration. The bowler did so with great fervour.

Earlier in the day, India were all out in the second session after adding 126 runs to their overnight total of 278-6. Bangladeshi off-spinner Mehidy finished with 4-112 while left-arm spinner Taijul took 4-133 for Bangladesh.

Ravichandran Ashwin overcame Bangladesh’s assault to get 58 runs, which was the third half-century scored by India in their innings. This came after Cheteshwar Pujara scored 90 and Shreyas Iyer scored 86.

When they were batting together for the eighth wicket, Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav added 92 runs, which was an extremely helpful partnership. Iyer restarted his innings with a score of 82, but Ebadot bowled him in the eighth over of the morning, preventing him from scoring a hundred.