ENG vs IND: Twitter loses calm as Ollie Robinson barges shoulder with KL Rahul

India is currently rubbing shoulders with England in the opening Test of the five-match Test series where Ollie Robinson shared some heated words with KL Rahul on day three. Rahul was batting in fine rhythm and was marching up with 58 runs in his bag while being supported by Rishabh Pant from the other end. Firstly, Rahul flicked Robinson to the leg side and the pacer went on to exchange some heated words.

It was not the end of the story as Robinson went to barge shoulders with Rahul. Before that incident, even ace pacer James Anderson got involved with the umpire in a discussion regarding rain. Talking about Rahul’s performance, he is the highest scorer from the Indian team so far after he left the field by adding 84 runs from his willow.

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— Rishobpuant (@rishobpuant) August 6, 2021

India started day one of the Test on a great tone after the pacers wrapped up the English side on merely 183 runs. In turn, Indian openers also set the fine tone as Rohit Sharma and Rahul dealt the seamers very patiently and skillfully. However, as Sharma lost his wicket, wickets started raining for the home side as India slipped from 97-0 to 112-4. It was Jasprit Bumrah who picked a classy four-for whereas Shami maintained perfect lengths and picked three wickets to his credit.

Here is how Twitter reacted to Robinson barging shoulder with KL Rahul

How cool it was of Robinson pushing KL Rahul with shoulder?@SonyPictures #AskTheExpert

— Harshit Sharma 🇮🇳 (@Harshit93681547) August 6, 2021

Rahul vs Robinson 🔥#ENGvsIND pic.twitter.com/1raYYyfRTj

— Science wala ladka (@sciencewalaldka) August 6, 2021

Robinson : Have you ever tweeted something which was offensive?
Rahul : No, I directly blew up things in a TV show for a cup of coffee.#ENGvsIND #ENGvIND #KLRahul pic.twitter.com/WkuAdfAM6D

— KP☻ (@Kaushal1344) August 6, 2021

This guy Ollie Robinson just shoulder barged KL Rahul!!

— Adarsh (@iam_adarsh1) August 6, 2021

I hope Ollie robbinson gets another ban on him 😡😡 worst behaviour with Rahul and Cunning attitude #ENGvsIND #Kohli

— toe_cr24 (@toe_cr243) August 6, 2021

We were prepared for Kohli vs Anderson and Rahul vs Robinson came out of syllabus #IndvsEng #KLRahul #Rishabpant #JamesAnderson #ViratKohli

— Shamsher Singh (@Shamsher0793) August 6, 2021

Robinson in annoying man.he given a shoulder nudge to rahul. And he is talking trash all day to him yesterday

— ഗോപാലകൃഷ്ണൻ (@crazygopalaan) August 6, 2021

Mera sawal hai sir dono se
Kl Rahul ko Robinson ne halka sa Dhakka Diya kya es per match reffery dhyan denge
@Sonysportindia #ASK the expert

— Dileep Keshri (@keshri_dileep) August 6, 2021

I little bit of physical contact between Robinson and Rahul 👀

— Shruti | Swimming at Trent Bridge (@Shruti4518) August 6, 2021

Was that little shoulder barge there between KL Rahul & Robinson? It's a no contact sport. #IndvsEng #KLRahul #Robinson

— Angad Kapoor (@AngadKapoor2) August 6, 2021

“Obviously because 183… as per me we should make a good score and take the lead. We are in a good position because any team you bowl out for 183 at its home is a good performance. Now the thing is that we need to focus on the first hour and according to me the ball has not done much, the way we bowled in the day, we bowled in the right length, and accordingly, you have got wickets,” stated Shami after India’s bowling show on day one of the game.

Talking about the match currently, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami are holding the fort for India where the visiting side have taken a lead of 35 runs (at the time of writing this).