India’s score read 391/4 – still 86 runs short of England’s first innings total – at the end of play on day three in the fifth Test, thanks mainly to KL Rahul who fell one run short of a well-deserved double century late in the day.
Rahul and fellow Karnataka batsman Karun Nair added 161 runs for the fourth wicket to lead India out of troubled waters after Cheteshwar Pujara and captain Virat Kohli fell cheaply after lunch.
There was a lot of praise as well as sympathy for Rahul on Twitter. Indian Test great VVS Laxman lauded the 24-year-old’s ability to learn from his mistakes while former Australian cricketer Dean Jones tweeted that Rahul’s batting is such that it helps bring crowds to the stadium.
On one hand, Aakash Chopra sympathised with Rahul as he was dismissed on 199 while on the other, Mohammad Kaif and Harsha Bhogle hailed his conversion rate from fifties to hundreds. Out of the five times Rahul has crossed 50 in his Test career so far, he has got to the three-figures mark four times.
Here, we look at the top tweets of the day.