'Want this kind of Luck' - Twitter divided over bail malfunction favouring Shreyas Iyer against Bangladesh

India and Bangladesh took on each other on the first day of the series opener of the two-match Test series. Zahur Ahmed Chowdhary Stadium in Chattogram is hosting this match between Shakib Al Hasan’s men who had to bowl first after losing the toss against the visitors. Indian team managed to maintain the equilibrium of their inning following an early collapse.

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But there was something else that happened when the first day’s play was left with only four overs to be bowled. Bangla pacer Ebadot Hossain managed to trap Shreyas Iyer in the 86^th over of the innings and the bowl went straight into the stumps.

But it couldn’t dislodge the bails off the stumps and it eventually ignited an on-field drama for the next few seconds. The video of this interesting moment went viral over social media as soon as it was shared on Twitter. The cricket fans took immediately to Twitter for reacting to the same with various opinions on Twitter.

Here’s how fans reacted:

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Hope he makes the most of this luck and 2 drop catches.

— ZZ (@Ictfan_) December 14, 2022

Yeah

— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) December 14, 2022

Insane

— Jatin Gulati (72) 🇮🇳 (@jatinininin) December 14, 2022

I want this kind of Luck in my life

— Kohli.world18 (@sakethking18) December 14, 2022

Talking about Iyer’s performance on day 1, he played a knock of 82 runs with 10 boundaries to his name. He also stitched a brilliant partnership of 149 runs for the fifth wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara. Notably, the latter also played a knock of 90 runs with 11 boundaries on his credit.

Other than this, the star wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant also played a quick knock of 46 runs hitting six boundaries and two sixes.

The partnership between Pujara and Iyer took India to a commanding position from a miserable one on day 1 of the first Test match.

Talking about the bowlers of Bangladesh, spinner Taijul Islam ended up as the leading wicket-taker for the hosts as he scalped 3 wickets alongside Mehidy Hasan Miraz who took 2 wickets. Other than these two, Khaled Ahmed also claimed a wicket to his name.