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WATCH: Virat Kohli corrects Shreyas Iyer as latter wrongly celebrates sixth ODI half-century

Dixit Bhargav
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WATCH: Virat Kohli corrects Shreyas Iyer as latter wrongly celebrates sixth ODI half-century

Virat Kohli corrects Shreyas Iyer: The Indian captain saw the funny side of his middle-order batsman’s celebration.

During the second ODI of the ongoing West Indies’ tour of India in Visakhapatnam, India batsman Shreyas Iyer wrongly celebrated his sixth ODI half-century.

It all happened on the second delivery of the 48th over when Iyer cut a short delivery from West Indies all-rounder Keemo Paul to sweeper cover. Having run the single, Iyer started celebrating his half-century. The celebration came at the wrong time as the 25-year old player had reached 49* after the single.

It was at this point in time that India captain Virat Kohli saw the funny side of the situation and signaled it to Iyer that he still has to score a run to reach the 50-run mark. Other than Kohli, pacer Deepak Chahar also saw the funny side of the situation as he was standing behind his skipper.

Coming in to bat at No. 4 in the 38th over, Iyer ended up scoring 53 (32) with the help of three fours and four sixes. During the course of the knock, Iyer scored 31 runs off one over by West Indies all-rounder Roston Chase.

In what has been an exceptional match for Iyer, he also dismissed West Indies batsman Shimron Hetmyer on the back of an outstanding run-out from the boundary.

It was West Indies captain Kieron Pollard who won the toss and invited the hosts in to bat. On the back of individual centuries from their opening batsmen in Rohit Sharma (159) and Lokesh Rahul (102), India scored a brilliant 387/5 in 50 overs.

Virat Kohli corrects Shreyas Iyer

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Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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