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Rohit Sharma (R) reacts to the umpire ducking for canopy after his shot© X (Twitter)
Indian cricket staff skipper Rohit Sharma slammed a strong shot straight down the bottom that ended up making on-field umpire Chris Gaffaney run for canopy through the Champions Trophy 2025 encounter in opposition to Australia in Dubai on Tuesday. Rohit seemed in good contact in opposition to the Australia quick bowlers and on the ultimate ball of the sixth over, he produced an excellent shot straight down the bottom off the bowling of Nathan Ellis. The shot got here immediately in direction of umpire Gaffaney who jumped to at least one facet in an effort to keep away from getting hit and the commentators have been left amused by his response. Even Rohit couldn’t assist however smile on the incident and his response has gone viral on social media.
Coming to the match, skipper Steve Smith and Alex Carey struck fifties to information Australia to 264 all out within the Champions Trophy semifinal on Tuesday.
Umpire Chris Gaffany’s response after Rohit Sharma hit the ball over his head#INDvAUS #INDvsAUS #RohitSharma pic.twitter.com/uyzMRuhV3K
— Mamta Jaipal (@ImMD45) March 4, 2025
Smith top-scored with 73 off 96 balls as he stitched two essential partnerships, first with Travis Head (39) for the second wicket, which yielded 50 runs, after which with Marnus Labuschagne (29) for the third for an additional 56 runs.
After the departure of Smith within the thirty seventh over, Carey (61) took cost to take Australia previous 260.
For India, Mohammed Shami (3/38) grabbed three wickets whereas Varun Chakravarthy and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets apiece. Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel acquired one every.
The Indian gamers took the sector sporting black armbands in honour of home cricket legend Padmakar Shivalkar, who died in Mumbai on Monday on account of age-related sickness. He was 84.
(With PTI inputs)
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