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Can’t pick between pink ball fifer and Lord’s show: Ishant Sharma

Ishant Sharma’s career went through many troughs after that before he resurfaced and became an integral part of the fierce Indian pace battery.

Can’t pick between pink ball fifer and Lord’s show: Ishant Sharma

Wellington: India's Ishant Sharma celebrates the wicket of Tom Blundell on Day 2 of the 1st Test match between India and New Zealand at the Basin Reserve cricket ground in Wellington, New Zealand on Feb 22, 2020. (Photo: Surjeet Yadav/IANS)

Fast bowler Ishant Sharma said that he can’t pick between his seven-wicket haul at Lord’s in 2014 and the fifer he took in India’s maiden pink ball Test against Bangladesh in November 2019.

“Both of them are equally memorable,” Ishant said in a video tweeted by his Indian Premier League side Delhi Capitals. “Taking seven wickets at Lord’s is obviously something I can’t forget. And taking those five wickets with the pink ball also I can’t forget because after 12 years I had taken a five-wicket haul.”

Ishant’s 7/74 was crucial in India recording a historic win at Lord’s over England in 2014. It was the first time in 28 years that India had won a Test at the famous stadium.

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Ishant’s career went through many troughs after that before he resurfaced and became an integral part of the fierce pace battery that Virat Kohli’s team now possesses along with Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami.

In the pink ball Test against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens, Ishant blew the opposition away in the first innings and ended up with figures of 5/22. It was his first fifer at home since 2007.

Ishant last played for India at Wellington in their first Test against New Zealand before his ankle injury resurfaced. He was expected to play for Delhi Capitals in the 2020 edition of the IPL but it has been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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