Twitter reacts to Paul Reiffel's injury, Jenning's maiden century, and Indian fielding on Day 1

12/08/2016

England ended the first day of the 4th Test in Mumbai at 288/5 thanks to some brilliant batting from debutant Keaton Jennings and Moeen Ali. What made news in the Twitter, though, was Marias Erasmus' delay to come on as the replacement for Paul Reiffel, Jennings' maiden century, and Indian fielding.

England took full control on the first Day of the 4th Test in Mumbai thanks to a brilliant century on debut by Keaton Jennings as the visitors finished the day at 288/5. R Ashwin led the Indian fightback towards the end claiming four wickets, three of which came in the last session.

Brief scores : England 288/5 ( Keaton Jennings 112, Moeen Ali 50, Ravichandran Ashwin 4/75)Haseeb Hameed was in the stands - when you have already booked tickets in advance!

Look who is supporting England Team from the stands #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/YHbpp3wAcC
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 8, 2016

ECB cannot produce good cricketers, so they buy them!

FUN FACT - Four of the last five batsmen to score a Test hundred on debut for England were born in South Africa. #funfact
— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) December 8, 2016

Why? Virat! Why?

virat wants to keep wickets, stands in slips, appeal, captain, motivate, review, all at the same time #INDvENG
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) December 8, 2016

Reason found!

Cook Had To Go To Kitchen To Prepare The Lunch For England Team. ;)#SirJadeja Just Helped Him. ;)#IndvENG #INDvsEND Sir Ravindra Jadeja
— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) December 8, 2016

Our cricket team just took 'Athithi devo bhava' seriously!

"I'm a debutant I want to score runs in my initial matches"

"Me too.. I didn't score in last 3 yrs"

*Cricket board fixes series with India*
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) December 8, 2016

Lol England!

South Africans have done well for England at Wankhede... 😉😜 #KP #Jennings
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) December 8, 2016

Still did not understand what he was doing!

Marias Erasmus took more time to come out in the middle than a 19-year old girl getting ready for her first date. #INDvENG
— Madhav 🏏 (@HashTagCricket) December 8, 2016

Way too many ads!

Kuch bhi ho jaye, STAR Sports ads dalne ka chance nahin chorenge.
— Madhav 🏏 (@HashTagCricket) December 8, 2016

Being Indian!

We are cricket lovers, ATM chal raha hai ya nahi isse hume koi matlab nahi, Indian players chalne chahiye.
— Sunil- The Cricketer (@1sInto2s) December 8, 2016

Atleast let them win something!

England have taken an unassailable series lead in tosses #INDvENG
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) December 8, 2016

Have your eyes everywhere!

Marais Erasmus called instead of Reiffel. He should keep an eye for any square leg throw which will come next! #INDvENG
— HW Cricket App🏏 (@holdingwilley) December 8, 2016

Something fishy!

Maybe Umpire Erasmus was delayed as he was frantically closing pop-up windows and deleting the browsing history on the 3rd umpire's laptop.
— 51allout (@51allout) December 8, 2016

Where was he?!