Duleep Trophy | Twitter stunned as Saini's inducking peach beats Gill all hands up to rattle off-stump

India A headed into Tea on Day 2 of the Duleep Trophy opener at Chinnaswamy at 57/1 after India B put up 321 on the board on the back of a sensational 181 marathon innings from Musheer Khan. The opening pair of Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal felt relatively comfortable out in the middle on a green deck that seemed to have lost some significant spice through the length of the match and seemed destined to keep their half-century stand unbeaten through the second session but Navdeep Saini had other plans.

Saini, having scored his second first-class half-century in a 144-ball epic, was handed the ball by Abhimanyu Easwaran for the final over before Tea. By the time the finall ball rolled around, the right-arm quick had already been pummelled for two boundaries in the over and was up against a Gill looking in fine touch. Saini pitched the ball on good length well outside the stumps and Gill, sensing an opportunity to get through to the break safely, shouldered arms at the seemingly harmless effort. However, to his horror, the red cherry jagged back like a Muralitharan off-cutter, deviating one and a half degrees off the surface to crash into the middle of off-stump.

Gill could not believe his eyes as they bored down on the deck before the Indian veteran slowly walked off to the pavillion in front of an ecstatic Saini. Twitterati, meanwhile, presented a medley of the two emotions.

Whta a delivery!

Fantastic

Not a talent

Dismissed

Gone

PR Gill

No party

Gone

Bowled

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