Watch: Mohammed Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav have a light-hearted exchange in dressing room
Another edition of an intense rivalry has begun when team India lock horns with England for four Tests, 3 T20ls, and 5 ODIs. Chennai is hosting the first Test match, which after Joe Root has won the toss and decided to bat first without any surprise. The England openers started very confidently and put on 63 run-partnership for the first wicket before Rishabh Pant caught Rory Burns on the delivery of Ashwin. Before England recovered from the early hiccup, they lost another wicket of Daniel Lawrence (caught in front of the wicket by Bumrah), reducing England to 63/2.
From the fine opening start, the England batting line up looked to collapse before captain leading from the front Joe Root and Dominic Sibley rescue the side and put themselves back into the driver seat with the massive 200 run-partnership for the third wicket. Towards the end of the day, when visitors were at the top of hosts, they lost the crucial wicket of Dominic Sibley, who scored 87 runs off 286 balls (caught in front of the wicket by Bumrah) at the score of 263/3. With this wicket, the day one's play of test match has ended, which also featured Joe Root brilliant 20th Test hundred in his 100th test match to push the hosts at the backfoot ultimately. Team India conceded 15 extras, which includes 11 no-balls.
Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammad Siraj incident
While everyone was heading towards the dressing room after the day one play, the camera caught the attention when something strange happened between Mohammad Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav. The fast bowler grabbed the neck of Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav in the peculiar little way that surprised Kuldeep Yadav by this gesture. It was some humor between teammates.
You can watch the video of that dressing room incident right here.
What did siraj do here to kuldeep?👀👀#INDvsENG pic.twitter.com/pmWzVXAwt9
— Aniket Roy (@AniketR25368385) February 5, 2021