Published: Oct 03, 2016, 06:18 PM (IST)
Edited: Oct 03, 2016, 06:28 PM (IST)
India’s victory over New Zealand in the second Test at Eden Gardens, Kolkata by 178 runs makes them top side in ICC Test rankings. Earlier it was Pakistan at the top of ICC rankings after they beat England in the fourth Test at Lord’s on August 14, 2016. After that, India were expected to take over the top spot of the ranking by beating West Indies in the fourth Test of the series but that didn’t happen and Pakistan continued with its number one rankings. The fourth Test between India and West Indies at Port of Spain was rain marred on day one and because of poor arrangements, the outfield of the ground remained wet for rest of the four days, which led to no play and the result was draw.
It was known that the top spot in Test rankings will be soon taken by India with long home Test season, which starts with three-match series against New Zealand. As per the ranking points, India needed to win first two Tests of the series against New Zealand, in order to take the top spot in rankings and they did it by beating the Kiwi side by 178 runs at Kolkata.
It’s a fact that ICC takes a bit time to update the rankings but this time they did it quickly and notified the viewers by tweeting that India are now the top team in ICC Test Rankings.
BREAKING: India guaranteed No.1 Test spot! – https://t.co/zVuj0hFyhh pic.twitter.com/ZP7vuDlaqN
— ICC (@ICC) October 3, 2016
Meanwhile, Radio Pakistan, which is known as National Radio of Pakistan, tweeted that a resolution has been passed to felicitate Pakistan Cricket Team for achieving the number one Test rankings which is now no more with them.
Senate passes a resolution unanimously felicitating Pakistan Cricket Team on the achievement of number one position in Test Cricket Rankings — Radio Pakistan (@RadioPakistan) October 3, 2016
Just after that tweet from Radio Pakistan, twitterati started trolling them as India are now the new number one Test team. Here are some hilarious tweets.
Ha Ha @RadioPakistan , You Mean The No. 2 Team? Number 1 Is India Now. #INDvNZ #INDvsNZ https://t.co/ZSBoOFwnsF — Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadejaaaa) October 3, 2016
Meanwhile Pak Is Saying, India’s Claim Of Becoming Number 1 Is False & The #INDvsNZ Match Never Happened.
— Virendar Sehwaag (@VirendarSehwaag) October 3, 2016
@RadioPakistan Resolution valid for 2hrs..ha ha ha….Kya brain he PCB ka..
— Vinu (@vinodm_85) October 3, 2016
Dear @RadioPakistan Please inform Senate that India beat New Zealand by 178 runs and regain Number 1 Rank in Test cricket.Baap baap hota hai — Manish kumar (@manish_politics) October 3, 2016
@RadioPakistan ओये बंटी तेरा साबुन स्लो है। — काल्पनिक (@KaaalPanic) October 3, 2016
@RadioPakistan Bad luck!! Par ek kaam karo is par gaur farmao.. N do the needful.https://t.co/NUNBYR16kw
— KarmicThrust (@karmicthrust) October 3, 2016
@RadioPakistan takes 30 mins to dethrone you. And now start the denial process. Get western media and start the donkey parade #deniers
— The Raul (@rahulsitm) October 3, 2016
@RadioPakistan while pak was busy celebrating no 1 in tests..india quietly took away the throne!! surgical strike again! — Avanish (@avanishmalhotra) October 3, 2016
@radiopakistan are u serious? pic.twitter.com/H6pM656MYG — Bahadur (@my2bit) October 3, 2016
@RadioPakistan So your senate created a record for passing a resolution with the least validity period. Kudos… Kudos
— NANDAKUMAR (@nanda3e) October 3, 2016
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India will play the third Test of the series against New Zealand at Indore, which will start from October 8.
