Bowlers have to be patient, stick to a basic line and length results will come our way. This is the main agenda of the Indian team meeting after the third day of the first test vs South Africa on Cape Town.
Bowlers have to be patient, stick to a basic line and length results will come our way. This is the main agenda of the Indian team meeting after the third day of the first test vs South Africa on Cape Town. The third day’s play had been lost due to rain and it had given some hope for India to save the test match.
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The wicket at Centurion will be different from one that had seen in Capetown. India will be thinking of giving Ishant a nod in place of Bhuvaneshwar or continue with him. Young Jasprit Bumrah has said that the team is capable of bouncing back after the loss.
“In the first innings we thought we bowled a little fuller than normal because in India the wickets are different where we have to pitch the ball fuller to get the swing and to get the batsmen on the front foot,” says Bumrah.”Over here (in SA) there is a bounce. We analyzed that and tried to adapt in the second innings and as a unit, we were able to create pressure, so that was the basic plan going into the second innings.
That worked well.” India may juggle with their pace unit going into the second Test at a venue that promises pace and bounce but may not be equally effective with swing.
The earlier idea of roping in Ishant Sharma ahead of Bhuvneshwar Kumar could well come into play given the former’s height and the advantage he can get from a hard deck here. With only one nets session so far, Team India was yet to put an elaborate plan in place for the XI.
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