Everything changed in 1 day, we were having fun, everything ended in the blink of an eye

New Delhi. You must have heard this many times that the game of cricket changes in the blink of an eye, but if you want to see an example of this then look at the Kanpur Test between India and Bangladesh. No one had thought that there would be a result in this rain-interrupted match. Especially when the entire game of two days gets washed out due to rain. What the Indian team did changed everything for Bangladesh in 1 day. The team which was resting and enjoying due to rain till a day before the match, was on the verge of defeat after a day.

Bangladesh managed to set a target of only 95 runs against India to win the Kanpur Test. In this match, Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bowl first. This was the first time in 9 years that an Indian captain chose bowling instead of batting after winning the toss. In the first day’s play, Bangladesh had scored 107 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in just 35 overs. The play on the second and third days was lost to rain. There were only two days of play left and not even a single innings had been completed, so hardly any Bangladeshi had expected the result of the match.

everything changed in 1 day
Bangladesh team rested for two days after batting on the first day in the Kanpur Test. The Indian team was desperate to win the match while the visiting team must have been happy with it going towards a draw. The players rested in the hotel room on the second day of the match and then on the third day. There must have been fun among themselves. Everyone must have thought that this match would be a draw. The Indian team showed such a game on the fourth day that everything changed suddenly.

The bowlers first restricted Bangladesh’s first innings to 233 runs. What happened after this was amazing. Declared the innings after scoring 285 runs for 9 wickets in just 34.4 overs and took a lead of 52 runs. After this, when Bangladesh came to play, it got bundled out for 146 runs in the first session on the last day due to the lethal bowling of Jasprit Bumrah, R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. The scene changed before my eyes.