Pink-ball Test: Sehwag remembers Rahul Gandhi seeing England's crumbling batting innings, here's why

Former India batsman Virender Sehwag added another string to his witty bow on micro-blogging site Twitter as everyone witnessed another England collapse in the ongoing four-match Test series. England slipped from 27/2 to 81/4 to 112 all out as India were in a commanding position at the end of the first day's play with 13 runs behind England's score, having 7 wickets still in hand.

Seeing England's crumbling batting performance, Sehwag couldn't hold himself but to comment on the same in his own unique way and he chose the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's words to deliver it for him. Sehwag shared an old video of one of Gandhi's speeches in which Gandhi said, "Khatam (finished), Bye-Bye, Tata, Goodbye, Gaya (gone)."

England batsman as soon as they come on the wicket #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/vDpRgrsnP1

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 24, 2021

As one after the other, England's wickets kept falling as none of the visitors' batsmen apart from Zak Crawley could keep India's bowlers at bay. 

The local boy Axar Patel starred for the hosts with a second five-wicket haul in as many matches. Patel finished with figures of 6/38 as his accurate lines and lengths troubled the English batsmen to the extent that they were missing even the straighter deliveries. However, it was up to the Indian batsmen to take India to a stronger position.

Rohit Sharma's 12th half-century in the longest format helped India finish the day on 99/3, despite losing the wicket of skipper Virat Kohli in the final over of the day.