Twitter Reactions: Suranga Lakmal makes an impact on a rain marred day at Eden Gardens

The India vs Sri Lanka Test series got underway today at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. With the rain gods deciding to pour out, it delayed the start of play by around 4 hours. While only 11.5 overs were bowled during the day, there was quite some action at the Eden Gardens.

Sri Lankan captain Dinesh Chandimal called the right side of the coin and would’ve thanked his stars he got to make the decision. It was obvious they were going to bowl first on a wicket that had a lot of juice for the fast bowlers and with overcast conditions adding a cherry on top of the cake. Team India preferred to go ahead with Shikhar Dhawan instead of Murali Vijay, they fielded two spinners and three pacers.

India were off to a really poor start as KL Rahul was dismissed on the first ball of the day. In conditions that are farthest from being Indian, the batters struggled as Lakmal bowled with excellent control, continuously probing the batsmen producing an unplayable delivery every now and then.

Soon, Suranga Lakmal got his second wicket as Shikhar Dhawan was bowled. In walked Indian skipper Virat Kohli with Cheteshwar Pujara at the non-striker’s end. Both were defensive in their approach as they tried to leave as many outgoing deliveries as possible.

Virat Kohli was dismissed lbw soon after tea and he bagged his sixth duck in Tests. He went for a review which was turned down. Ajinkya Rahane played five balls scoring none alongside Pujara’s 8 (43). That’s when bad light stopped play after which umpires called for stumps on Day 1.

Despite the fact that the day didn’t even witness 12 overs of play on the first day, Twitter was all riled up with India losing early wickets. Regardless of the outcome of the previous series, the Indian batsmen were trolled. On the other hand, Lakmal was lauded for his astonishing figures of 6-6-0-3.

Here we present to you, some of the best tweets from Day 1 of the India Sri Lanka 1st Test: