Star Indian pacer Akash Deep first after doing wonders with the ball, stole the show with the bat as well when he smashed back-to-back sixes against Shakib Al Hasan on the fourth Day of the second Test match between India and Bangladesh which is being played at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur, on September 30 (Monday). His two sixes not only provided India more boost at the end but also were one of the highlights of the match. The most special detail about it was that, he did it with the bat Virat Kohli gifted him.
Sixes with Virat Kohli's bat
Recently, Akash Deep shared a picture of a bat that was gifted to him by his Royal Challengers Bengaluru teammate Virat Kohli. He appeared to use the same bat when he smashed back-to-back sixes against Bangladesh veteran Shakib Al Hasan . The video of that moment is now going viral on the internet.
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On the fourth day of Monday's rain-affected second Test match against Bangladesh, Indian batters went on a rampage, setting new world marks for the quickest team 50, 100, and 200 runs. After Rohit Sharma's early fireworks (23 off 11 balls, 3x6s, 1x4s), Yashasvi Jaiswal struck 10 fours and a six to make the fourth-fastest fifty for any Indian batter from 31 balls. He was then removed for 72 (51 balls, 12x4s, 2x6s). Here at Green Park on Monday, the two Indian openers were hitting it out of the park, breaking the 50-run barrier in just three overs.
India thereby broke England's record, which they had set in July of this year at Trent Bridge against the West Indies, for the fastest team fifty overs in 4.2 overs. No. 3 Shubman Gill stepped in to punish the Bangladeshi bowlers as Jaiswal persisted in his aggressive style, helping India surpass the three-figure threshold in 10.1 overs and set a new record. In 2023, at Port of Spain, India beat the West Indies by scoring 100 runs in 12.2 overs, the fastest century for any side in terms of overs faced.
In response to Bangladesh's 233 all out in the first innings, Indians chose to go all out with the bat. KL Rahul's 43-ball 68 and Virat Kohli's rapid 47 later on saw them pass the 200-run barrier in the fastest time ever recorded by any side, 24.2 overs. Australia had the record for the quickest 200 meters, which was broken by India against Pakistan in the 2017 Sydney Test. After scoring runs at an average of 8.22 per over, India eventually declared their innings at the fall of the penultimate wicket, having only gone 285 for nine in just 34.4 overs. The first three days of this final Test could only see 35 overs of play because of the ground conditions and continuous rain.
Then before stumps on Day 4, Ravichandran Ashwin picked up two more wickets and dismissed Zakir Hasan and Hasan Mahmud in his consecutive overs to give the visitors two early blows. At the end of the day 4, Bangladesh is batting at 26-2 with Shadman Islam and Mominul Haque on the pitch.
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