the audacity of Rishabh Pant Akele has turned this Test – the third and deciding Test between South Africa and India at Newlands in Cape Town – into an entertaining contest. The hosts have eight wickets in hand and need 111 more runs to win; The ball is transitioning from new to old, and the bowlers are very capable of handling both.
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The team that manages to reduce the margin of error more successfully will win the match and the series. At 10-2 however, South Africa are slightly ahead, with a good deal of luck, and the relative ease of the track coming to their aid.
India scored 198 runs in the second innings, out of which 28 extras and 100 runs came from Pant’s bat. The rest of the batting order added the remaining 70 runs. This should be another stern warning to the coach Rahul Dravid And the national selectors will take appropriate decision in the near future.
To be fair to India’s bench-strength, it’s been pretty hot for some time now.
Coming back into the game, Pant’s unbeaten 100 – with six fours and four sixes – was partially aided. Virat KohliVery patient 143 balls 29 too. The runs may not have been much, but Kohli stuck for a long time, then Pant just came, to make sure the latter was not left alone Rabada, olivier And jenson,
On the eve of the game, Kohli had told the media that “Pant was spoken to”, and that the statement was the effect of the flamboyant stroke that the wicketkeeper-batsman played at Wanderers near Rabada, only to be caught behind. For a duck. Kohli spoke, but it is not clear whether Pant listened, as what he did in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon had nothing to do with the word ‘patience’.
The bat flew in one direction, the ball in the other. In examples, the batsman went across the wicket and played the ball by a foot outside the off-stump to the on-side. He spun, fell, jumped and tied himself in knots.
Physics had nothing to do with Pant’s batting, but he did not lose his wicket.
Ahead of this Test, Kohli spoke about the lesson he had learned from MS Dhoni – don’t repeat the same mistakes for seven to eight months. On the third day however, the captain himself repeated the mistake of going behind the ball outside the off-stump – just like what was tempting him to edge – and fell again.
The Kohli-Pant stand, it would have continued throughout the season, would have ensured a target of over 250 and this Test would have already started to look different. It looks to be tilting a bit in South Africa’s favour, partly due to some very cautious batting. elgar, some very flamboyant batting from Pietersen, and a fair amount of luck aided him.
The ball either left the edge of Elgar’s bat or didn’t carry enough, leaving the Indian bowlers sweating. Kohli brought Ashwin And the off-spinner got a lot of turn even by his standards, but nothing happened. He came closest to taking the wicket when Pietersen padded it and the ball looked to hit the stumps. But such was India’s day that the review showed the ball jumping more than they thought.
The first session on Friday will decide the direction of this Test match, which is currently in limbo.
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