IND vs ENG | Twitter lauds fiery Siraj’s precision as Anderson receives taste of his own medicine
There’s a famous saying, 'What goes around comes around'. The second session of the third Test between England and India saw a similar circle when legendary bowler James Anderson was cleaned up with breath-taking accuracy by Mohammad Siraj to wrap up the English innings at 319.
Despite a solid start to the innings on the second Day of the Rajkot Test, England's middle order failed to continue with the same momentum on the preceding day. After a fall of three wickets in the morning session, Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes’ brisk resilience was breached post-lunch, courtesy of a strategizing display of cricket from the Indian contingent. Mohammad Siraj was one of the wreakers in chief that cleared the clutter including a brilliant delivery to James Anderson that wrapped up England’s tally.
On the first ball of the 72nd over, Siraj came around the wicket to the southpaw and dished a full-pitched delivery that angled into the outside edge of the off stump after Anderson failed to get the bat behind the line. The 41-year-old ended up defending inside the line of the ball and the SG wobbled inward to beat the outside edge of the willow to nick the edge of the off-stump for Siraj's fourth wicket. Seeing the pin-point precision of Siraj get the better of a legendary red-ball bowler, the Twitterverse related it with Anderson getting a taste of his own medicine.
Same to same!
Siraj Recreated lords magical wicket again in Rajkot 🔥 pic.twitter.com/30cewOvDl3
— ANSH. (@KohliPeak) February 17, 2024
Destroyed
𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 🎯𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱 🚀☝️
— JioCinema (@JioCinema) February 17, 2024
Siraj wraps up the England innings with finesse 🔥👏#INDvENG #JioCinemaSports #BazBowled #IDFCFirstBankTestSeries pic.twitter.com/WOO1DRVDHE
Dismantled!
— Jas Pope (@jas_pope93438) February 17, 2024
Gone!
— Jas Pope (@jas_pope93438) February 17, 2024
Brilliant
Simply brilliant from Siraj and Kuldeep.
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 17, 2024
Down to 10 players and what a remarkable fightback.
Lovely to watch
Fire
Apna Siraj Aag hai, Aag! 🔥
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) February 17, 2024
The team needed someone to step up in the absence of their senior most bowler and look how the entire bowling unit has responded. This is for Ashwin from the team. #IndvEng pic.twitter.com/CVZ9rR3xCL
Biryani effect
This is what Mohammad Siraj can do if you feed him Biryani in the Lunch 😅
— Sujeet Suman (@sujeetsuman1991) February 17, 2024
Exceptional Stuff from Siraj Miya.I am not sure about Bazball but surely Siraj magic has arrived in Rajkot.pic.twitter.com/3QIQ1PLqkF
Crazy
Siraj only performs against Sri Lanka, bro. 🤡 😂 pic.twitter.com/rJswf6b17j
— Aditya Saha (@Adityakrsaha) February 17, 2024
Superb
Beautyyy 🙌🏻 what a session for team India #siraj #indiavsengland pic.twitter.com/cJI5gSm3rx
— Khushpreet Singh Aulakh (@kp_khushpreet) February 17, 2024
Completely
𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 🎯𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱 🚀☝️
— lakhan (@lakhan7615) February 17, 2024
Siraj wraps up the England innings with finesse 🔥👏#INDvENG #JioCinemaSports #BazBowled #IDFCFirstBankTestSeries pic.twitter.com/yVxuiGyo4M
Bye bye bazzball!
What a spell by Mohammad Siraj today!! #Siraj after destroying Bazball 💪💯#INDvsENG #INDvENG #TestCricket #Bazball #RohitSharma #Bumrah pic.twitter.com/e4pOl0OUe5
— Ashutosh Srivastava 🇮🇳 (@sri_ashutosh08) February 17, 2024
Absolute mockery
Siraj makes mockery of this tweet 😎😂🤣🤣 https://t.co/XdERlgPatr pic.twitter.com/QoTzx1qn39
— Rajveer (@Rajveerkap) February 17, 2024
Speak up mate!
Siraj be like : pic.twitter.com/xvXBuP9xQA
— Cricket fan (@Cricket_fan2602) February 17, 2024