As expected, Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara were heavily praised on social media after their fine centuries which helped India reach 317-4 at the end of play on day one of the second Test at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.
India won an important toss and elected to bat first on a wicket which is expected to assist the spinners later on, but were reduced to 22-2 by the English pace duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad early on Thursday.
Thereafter, Kohli and Pujara were at their fluent best as they put on a 226-run stand for the third wicket. Pujara was dismissed for 119, while Kohli will continue batting on Friday with his overnight score reading 151.
Here, we collect the top tweets from the day’s play.