IND vs ENG: Brook's rain warning to Gill comes true on Day 5; viral video resurfaces

A light-hearted infinitesimal from yesterday successful the 2nd Test betwixt India and England has taken connected caller value aft rainfall washed retired the opening hours of Day 5 astatine Edgbaston. A video featuring England batter Harry Brook informing Shubman Gill astir incoming rainfall has gone viral, chiefly due to the fact that his cheeky prediction came true. During a interruption successful play, Brook was heard joking with Gill: "Not 450 declared? Shubman, you cognize it’s raining tomorrow. Half day. Afternoon. It’s raining.”Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!To which Gill casually replied, “Bad luck for us.”Brook responded with a grin: “Take the draw.”The clip was initially viewed arsenic affable banter, but with persistent rainfall connected Sunday becoming the spread betwixt a gully and India's aureate accidental to level the series, Brook’s remark abruptly feels prophetic.Watch the viral clip:

India entered Day 5 successful implicit control, needing conscionable 7 much wickets to seal a ascendant win. England were reeling astatine 72/3, inactive 536 runs distant from an intolerable people of 608. But dense showers deed Birmingham conscionable minutes earlier the scheduled start, leaving the outfield soaked and conditions unplayable.The crippled has truthful acold belonged to India skipper Shubman Gill. The 25-year-old rewrote the grounds books connected Saturday, becoming the archetypal subordinate successful Test past to people 250 and 150 successful the aforesaid match.

His knocks of 269 and 161 powered India to monolithic totals of 587 and 427/6 declared, mounting up what could've been a definite victory.If the lucifer ends successful a draw, England volition caput to Lord’s for the 3rd Test, starting Thursday, with a 1-0 lead.