Indian cricket fan goes viral after finding 'gold'

The match was delayed by several minutes, with umpires preparing to resume play with a new ball.

Enter Mohit Chavda.

The 24-year-old tried to jump into the sectioned off area to search for the ball, but a security guard stopped him.

But Chavda wasn't about to give up that easy, waiting for the guard to become distracted and then move in.

"I didn't find the ball at first so I waved that I can't find the ball," Chavda told AAP on Saturday.

"The umpire waved that they managed to get another ball and they told me you just leave from there because I was disturbing the vision."

Chavda intended to pick up one of his sandals that had fallen off and then go back to his seat, but upon doing that he discovered "gold".

His celebration, standing tall with his arms in the air, after picking up the ball led to him becoming the day's biggest meme.

"When I went back to get the sandal, at the same time the ball was actually on the seat and my foot was on the ball," Chavda said.

"So much of an adrenaline rush going at that time. I didn't know what actually happened until after I saw the broadcast of the clip on BCCI TV."

Chava has since been inundated with messages and friend requests, having to turn some of his social media accounts to private due to the sheer volume of content.

"I didn't sleep until 2 or 3 am, I was just going through all the messages, memes, videos; so many funny comments, people are too creative nowadays," he said.

But Chavda's biggest highlight was having Indian cricket icon Ravi Shastri behind the microphone for his famous moment.

The former India playing and coaching great sounded excited as Chavda looked.

"Oh, he's found it, he has found it! He has found gold!," Shastri said in commentary.

Chavda called it a "lifetime memory".

"How he (Shastri) described the whole scene, it was fabulous," Chavda said.

"We in India, we all are fans of Harsha Bhogle and Ravi Shastri's commentary and that's what I got."