Duleep Trophy | Twitter reacts to Shreyas laughing in disbelief after drawing first blood on day's final ball

India A’s aim of a 300-run first innings total was left unfulfillec courtesy of Harshit Rana’s opening spell before Khaleel Ahmed helped India revert the tides with brilliance of their own in the form of a couple new-ball strikes. With the other pacers joining in too, the Shreyas Iyer-led side was folded for 183 runs at Tea. However, a pitch that had suited the bowlers for the majority of the daym surprisingly began assisting the batters in the third session. Mayank Agarwal and Pratham Singh’s 105-run opening stand made the India D bowlers toil hard for a breakthrough until the skipper showed the path at the close of the day.   

The use of five full-time bowlers failed to draw first blood for the initial 28 overs in the third innings of the game with Agarwal and Pratham going strong. Seeing this, Shreyas took upon the onus himself by bowling the last over of the day for a change and it turned out to be effective as Mayank’s hard hand push on a fuller delivery lead to his downfall on the Mumbaikar's first ball. As the red cherry ricocheted off the blade’s bottom half to the bowler, Shreyas dived to his right and grasped it with firm hands. 

Subsequently, the 29-year-old was ecstatic and sprinted around with his teammates. Simultaneously, the Karnataka batter was left devastated on throwing away his wicket on a nothing ball at the stroke of Stumps. After a TV check confirmed that Shreyas had taken the catch cleanly, the same Twitterverse that trolled him for his earlier duck quickly transformed into a wave of support.

Crazy

Golden Arm! 💪



Shreyas Iyer comes into the attack. Shreyas Iyer strikes first ball 👌



An excellent low catch off his own bowling, and he breaks the 115-run opening stand at the stroke of stumps.  | 



Scorecard ▶️:  

— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIdomestic) 

1st one

Shreyas Iyer was seen bowling in Sunil Narine’s action

- Today he got wicket of the 1st ball in Duleep Trophy 🏆 

— ICT Fan (@Delphy06) 

Lol

Shreyas Iyer took wicket on the very first ball 😭 

— Yash. (@105of70Mumbai) 

Bowling do

🗣️ Shreyas Iyer ko bowling do 

— Parv 🚩 (@ParvCryEmoji) 

Wicket time

🎥Captain Shreyas Iyer with a wicket at the very end of the day's play💜

— KKR Vibe (@KnightsVibe) 

Gone

Shreyas Iyer has taken a wicket on the first ball

— Fabrizio Romano (Parody) (@FabrizioRomansx) 

Brilliant

Shreyas Iyer gets a wicket on the first ball. 🎯🔥

— Yogesh Ltd (@yogeshltd) 

Bowling power

Today Shreyas could not do wonders with batting but did wonders with bowling. 🔥🥵

— Pick-up Shot (@96ShreyasIyer) 

OUT

Sanju Samson got out on 5 in the Duleep trophy against India A.



Now all justices have been served. No more justice.      

— Cricket Fever (@Cricket_fever71) 

Great

🚨 Captain Shreyas Iyer took wicket of Mayank Agarwal on his very 1st delivery of the match to break 115 runs partnership of Mayank and Pratham 🔥 

— Rajiv (@Rajiv1841)