The Indian cricketers are great fans of football and it is something new to the cricket fans, who in turn follow football with great attention. As things stand, the Men in Blue players, who are now in Bangladesh for the Test series, were fixed, staring at the big screen as they witnessed the greatest spectacle unfold during their stay.
It was Argentina who clinched the title post defeating France in the penalties on the night of the finals on December 18, Sunday. Taking a screenshot of the same, the Indian star Shubman Gill took an indirect dig at Cristiano Ronaldo as he captioned it with the latter’s famous phrase ‘siu’.
“The GREATEST of all time @leomessi SIIIIIIUUUUUUU,” Gill posted on his Instagram account along with the spin star Kuldeep Yadav. Notably, Messi managed to bag 2 goals to his name during the summit clash, pushing the match into the penalties on the back of a hattrick from his Paris Saint-Germain teammate Kylian Mbappe, as the latter kept France in the race for the title.
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Rohit Sharma ruled out of second Test vs Bangladesh
As far as the Test series is concerned, the Indian team led by KL Rahul clinched an emphatic win by 188 runs in the first Test as they crushed the Bangla Tigers to 324 while chasing a target of 513. Rohit Sharma was ruled out of the Test on the back of an injury that he sustained during the second ODI of the three-match series.
On Monday, it was clarified that the Indian veteran will miss the second Test as well, in the hope to get him fit for the upcoming Border-Gavaskar series set to take place in India in March. India would hope to carry on with the momentum to win the second Test and stay alive in the race to reach the summit clash of the Test trophy.
“We’ve been here for a while. The one-day series didn’t go how we wanted it to, the results didn’t go our way. It was important that we turned up and performed well in the Test series. It was a hard-fought Test match and we had to really work hard for this win. Really happy that we did that. It (pitch) did flatten out, it didn’t worry us but it looked like the batters were batting very comfortably and getting runs easily. Getting runs was very hard for the first three days. It was a slow pitch, not much in the wicket for batters to get runs easily,” Rahul was quoted as saying after the win in the first Test.
