Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah felt that the second Test between India and South Africa still hangs in the balance and that the visitors will look to create some pressure to pick some early wickets.
“The game is still in the balance. We will look to create pressure tomorrow and pick up some early wickets,” said Bumrah in the post-match conference
Talking about his sensational first spell, where he removed both Aiden Markram and Hashim Amla cheaply, the pacer said,
“We wanted to keep things simple and build pressure as a unit. We wanted to build pressure from both ends, thinking if we dry up their runs they will have to make some opportunities. So we were just focusing on creating pressure. That was helping us and that was our basic game,”
When rain intervened, Virat Kohli was seen in a heated discussion with the match referee and the umpires, talking about the incident, Bumrah said that the Indian team wanted to carry on at that moment.
“When we came, the outfield was wet so the ball went to the boundary sides and it got wet. So we asked the umpire, the ball is still getting wet, what do we do. We want the ball to be dry. The ball was swinging a little bit so the field is wet, both sides of the ball got wet and the ball didn’t swing anymore. We were just having a word with the umpire that the ball is wet so the ball won’t swing anymore. We were having a chat about what could be done in that situation,” he said.
“We were carrying a good momentum and we wanted to carry on. Its okay, we never get too disappointed because there is still lot of play is left in the match. We don’t get too disheartened that this didn’t happen. We wanted to carry on but the things didn’t work out so its okay,” he added.
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