“Caught a fleeting view of an interesting test match in Chennai,” Modi posted on his official Twitter handle with a beautiful image of the ‘Chepauk’ Stadium captured from his airplane. The tweet was then re-tweeted by the official handle of BCCI.
Caught a fleeting view of an interesting test match in Chennai. 🏏 🇮🇳 🏴 https://t.co/3fqWCgywhk
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1613292182000
Virat Kohli’s men, who lost the first Test by a massive margin of 227 runs, are in a commanding position in the ongoing Test match as they bundled out England for 134 in their first innings
India had earlier posted 329 runs after opting to bat first.
The Prime Minister arrived in the Tamil Nadu capital earlier on Sunday morning and handed over the indigenously developed Arjun Main Battle Tank (Mark 1A) tanks to Army Chief General M.M. Naravane.
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He later proceeded to the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium to launch several projects in the poll bound state. He inaugurated the Chennai Metro Rail Phase-I extension, completed at a cost of Rs 3,770 crores.
Modi also inaugurated 22 km long fourth Railway line between Chennai Beach and Attipattu and also laid the foundation stone for the Discovery Campus of IIT Madras.
India and England are currently taking part in a four-Test series, the first two of which are being played in Chennai while the remaining two matches will be played at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad.
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