When there are really only two batters batting and no wicket in sight, what should you do? All you have to do is approach the stumps and flip the bails. Looks like a bad joke? Not precisely. As a foolproof strategy, it's gradually but surely becoming a well-liked superstition in cricket with immediate results. The most recent—and possibly the first—Indian cricket player to attempt that was Virat Kohli. On the second day of the first Test match between India and South Africa in Centurion, Kohli flipped the bails, and a few minutes later, India made the breakthrough.
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