'Axar Patel take a bow' - Fans hail star all-rounder for prolific batting show in Ahmedabad Test

Star Indian all-rounder Axar Patel is playing a crucial role in the Indian batting during the ongoing fourth and last of the four-match Test series; He is sojourned there in the middle with the former skipper and batting superstar Virat Kohli. The duo has stitched an all-important partnership of 132 runs for the sixth wicket so far on the fourth day of the match.

Apart from Kohli’s brilliant 169 runs, Axar is currently batting on the individual score of 57 runs at the time of filling this copy. He has smashed four boundaries and two sixes so far during his knock.

Meanwhile, Indian cricket fans are also elated about Axar Patel’s outing; they are hailing the Gujarat all-rounder on the micro-blogging site Twitter with a lot of praising remarks.

Here’s how fans reacted:

Axar Patel take a bow 👏👏👏
he is going to be another Steve Smith..🔥🔥 #INDvsAUSTest

— Tarun Kaushik (@TarunKaushik396) March 12, 2023

Akshar Patel gets to 50 .. Third one for the series.

One of the best Batters in this Series ..#BGT2023#INDvsAUSTest #TestCricket

— Mudit 🇮🇳 (@MuditHastir) March 12, 2023

Bappu 💪 @akshar2026 #INDvsAUSTest #BGT

— Mihir Gandhi 🇮🇳 (@mihirrgandhi45) March 12, 2023

Axar Patel brings up his third half-century of the series #BGT2023 #BGT #CricketTwitter #AUSvsIND #AUSvIND #INDvAUS #INDvsAUS #ViratKohli𓃵 #INDvsAUSTest #IndVsAus2023 #INDvsAUSTest #indvsaus4thtest #ViratKohli #WTC2023 #NZvSL #NZvsSL pic.twitter.com/RLYJqGQIvC

— Sumit Mukherjee (@Who_Sumit) March 12, 2023

FIFTY FOR AXAR PATEL 👏👏

3RD IN THIS SERIES. 4TH IN TEST CRICKET. #AxarPatel #BGT2023 #INDvsAUSTest #IndVsAus2023 #BorderGavaskarTrophy pic.twitter.com/QMDDStlZvA

— nnis (@nnis_sports) March 12, 2023

Wonderful half century from Axar Patel

He had Best batting average in this series#indvsaus4thtest #IndVsAus2023 #INDvsAUSTest

— Cric Irfan (@Irfan_irru_17) March 12, 2023

Axar Patel has been the most consistent player in this series.#INDvsAUSTest

— Vikky 🏏 (@CricVikky) March 12, 2023

Patience and perseverance...
Axar patel, good batting 🏏
🙌👏👏 Half century 50*#CricketTwitter #INDvsAUSTest https://t.co/Zh3AUQpICT

— 𝕯𝖗.𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖇𝖆𝖘𝖚 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖎 🇮🇳 (@SharanDiggi) March 12, 2023

@akshar2026 mr.consistent🏏🔥
#INDvsAUSTest pic.twitter.com/rY4UdGUd6R

— Likith Varma (@LikithVarma9) March 12, 2023

Well aged bapu well deserved 50 #INDvsAUSTest #indvsaus4thtest

— shalabh seth 🇮🇳 (@coolshalabh2010) March 12, 2023

Axar continue with the bat#INDvsAUSTest #axarpatel

— Pravesh Yadav (@stark__xx) March 12, 2023

Speaking of the other action of the match, the young Indian opener Shubman Gill played an amazing century knock of 128 runs off 235 balls with 12 boundaries and a six with the wood. Other than Gill, the senior batters, Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara also scored 35 and 42 runs respectively followed by Ravindra Jadeja and Srikar Bharat with individual knocks of 28 and 44 runs respectively.

The veteran spinner Nathan Lyon and young lad  Todd Murphy have scalped two wickets each so far in the first Indian innings. Other than these two, Matthew Kuhnemann has also claimed a wicket on his credit.

Coming back to Virat Kohli, he has scored his Test career’s 28^th century and overall 75^th international century; notably, he is only the second batter in the world to score the most international centuries just after the former legendary Indian batter Sachin Tendulkar, who has 100 international centuries to his name.

This century has come for Virat Kohli after a long wait of 3 years, 3 months, and 17 days in the longest format of the game. He is also nearing his career’s eighth double-century in the ongoing first innings in the Ahmedabad Test.