Indian Captain Rohit Sharma Stump-Mic Exchange With Umpire Goes Viral
The captain of the Indian cricket team, Rohit Sharma, is well known for his hilarious one-liners, and in recent times, in the middle of the matches, he has been caught delivering witty quips on the stump mic. During the third T20I match against Afghanistan in Bengaluru, One such exchange that went viral on social media happened. Rohit was dismissed for a duck in the two previous matches of the series, and in the third match, he got off the mark with a boundary. However, umpire Virender Sharma signalled that it was a leg-bye, which led to Rohit delivering an epic dialogue. “AreyViru, thigh-pad diyakyapehla four? Bat lagatha!”
In a recent event, Rohit opened up about the incident and said that his reaction came from the fact that he had not scored a single run in the series till then. As a result, it was very important for him to get the first runs, and when the leg-by was given, he could not stop himself from reacting.
During an event in Bilaspur, Rohit said, “When you’re coming off two zeros, we know how important scoring the first run is. I scored a four off the bat, but the umpire probably didn’t notice it and signalled them as leg byes. I usually don’t look at the scoreboard much while batting. My mind is on batting, but when the over was completed, my eyes went up there, and I saw that Rohit Sharma was still on 0. I was like, ‘I just scored a four. How is it still zero?’ So, I asked him, ‘Viru, did you give it off the thigh pad?”