Rohit Sharma furious after bizarre dismissal as IND skipper plays himself on stumps – WATCH

Just when the tide seemed to have turned for India, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma and his stumps suffered an unfortunate stroke of luck as he was bizarrely dismissed against New Zealand in Bengaluru on Friday.

Despite their strong start on Day 2 with the ball, India were left completely baffled by the likes of Tim Southee and centurion Rachin Ravindra, who posted a fantastic 137-run stand, while New Zealand scored 402 runs before being bowled out.

Trailing by 356 runs, it was crucial for India to get out of the gate and that’s exactly what happened as Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal made a brilliant start to score 72 runs.

Ajaz Patel found the breakthrough for NZ as he beat Jaiswal after a stumping. But skipper Rohit continued to wreak havoc and went on the attack as he knocked consecutive boundaries off Matt Henry to reach his 18th Test fifty.

Then, with Ajaz back on the attack with the ball, Rohit poked forward and defended from the inner half, and just when he thought he had played some solid forward defense, the ball ran off the face and crashed into the stumps as the Indian The skipper was now forced to leave the crease after playing himself onto the stumps.

A visually dissatisfied Rohit had no option but to leave the crease as India faced yet another sucker punch.

But luckily for the home side, the duo of Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan would go on the attack, confidently bombarding the New Zealand bowlers with sixes and fours galore to help India rebuild after the dismissal of their skipper.