You cannot miss Kohli's celebration after running out Root during the opening day of the first Test on Wednesday. Watch the video here!
Virat Kohli showed once against on Wednesday that he's not one to forgive and forget. The feisty Indian captain, who has had many run-ins with opponents over the years, had a special send-off for his England counterpart Joe Root on the opening day of the first Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Root was looking set to get a big one on Wednesday, but a brilliant piece of fielding from Kohli saw the right-hander getting run-out for 80. Root tried to steal a second run off Ravichandran Ashwin but Kohli ran quickly, picked up the ball and threw it in one swift motion on knock down the stumps with a direct hit.
Kohli celebrated the dismissal with a 'mic-drop', something Root had done after guiding England to a 2-1 ODI series win against India last month. Kohli has always believed to giving it back to his opponents. Last year, he had put his index finger on his lip to celebrate a wicket when England were touring India. It was a reply to all-rounder Ben Stokes who had celebrated in a similar manner earlier.
Watch Kohli's celebration after Root's wicket here
Report at Tea break on Day 1
England made a solid start on day one of the first test against India as they reached 163 for the loss of three wickets at Tea on Wednesday. Skipper Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow steadied England with a half-century stand for the fourth wicket after Indian pace bowler Mohammed Shami put the visitors back in the game with two wickets in the afternoon session.
However, Root was looking increasingly confident against the Indian bowling attack and comfortably reached his half-century. Bairstow provided good company after scoring 27 runs off 45 deliveries on a wicket that is starting to slow.
England had reached 83 at lunch in a morning session that began strongly but almost threatened to unravel. In the host country's 1,000th test match, opener Keaton Jennings was dropped on nine but moved to 38 while Root looked fluent on his way to 31.
India's seam attack struggled to extract much help from the pitch and the visitors' one success was a ripper from off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin that removed Alastair Cook for 13. The 33-year-old had struck two handsome boundaries off Umesh Radav but in Ashwin's second over he played forward to a ball that drifted in towards middle stump before straightening past Cook's outside edge and clattering off stump.
Jennings got lucky in the sixth over of the day when he was squared up by a good length ball by Ishant Sharma and it flew off his outside edge but Ajinkya Rahane could not cling on to the catch at fourth slip. After Cook's dismissal there were few alarms for the England batsmen although Shami continued to look dangerous for India -- beating Jennings with a beauty in the 21st over.
Shami eventually took the wicket of Jennings midway through the afternoon while Dawid Malan could only score eight before becoming the Indian's second victim of the day.
(Inputs from Reuters)
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