As India beat Australia, Bollywood celebs poke fun at Tim Paine, take 'babysitting' digs

There were unbelievable scenes at the Gabba on Tuesday as India scripted one of the best turnarounds to win the series against Australia in their own backyard. Needing 324 more to get to the target on Day 5, which seemed unlikely at the start of the day, the team put an amazing show to win the last and final Test and retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy. Celebrities of the film industry too were over the moon.

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Bollywood reacts to India’s win against Australia 

Amit Sadh, Anup Soni, Saiyami Kher, Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor, Swwapnil Joshi, Gulshan Devaiah expressed their delight. They wrote how the team had made them proud and called the victory 'historic.' Rishabh Pant, who hit the winning runs and won the player of the match for his knock of 89* too attracted praise as well as Captain Ajinkya Rahane.

With most of the main players like captain Virat Kohli missing from the team, the ‘bench strength’ was acknowledged. Some compared it to the iconic victory against the same opposition at Kolkata in 2001 and called it 'greatest.'

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Even stars primarily based in South, like Prithviraj, Nivin Pauly and Prithviraj expressed their delight.

Many of the celebrities also had message for Australian captain Tim Paine, who tried various tricks to unsettle Indians by sledging them. They also brought out his famous ‘babysitting’ banter with Pant, as the Indian wicketskeeper won the match for India. Nikita Dutta, Atul Kasbekar and Tanmay Bhat had message for Tim Paine, writing that Pant was finally free to babysit the Aussie's kids.

India script history

Australia were beaten at the Gabba for the first time in 32 years as Ajinkya Rahane's men scripted a turnaround. The fourth innings total for India was aided by opening Shubman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara's century partnership with the newcomer scoring 91 and the no 3 batsman notched 55 runs. Quickfire cameos by Rahane and Washington Sundar also played a part in India achieving the target. 

Australia's Pat Cummins' 4/55 went in vain, but the speedster went to bag the Player of the Series award.

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