Flop Indian Cricket Team: In the first Test played against South Africa in Centurion, the Indian team had to face defeat by an innings and 32 runs. Team India, captained by Rohit Sharma, completely failed in all departments in the match against host South Africa. From the beginning to the end of the match, host Africa looked ahead. Africa performed brilliantly in all three departments including batting, bowling and fielding. On the contrary, Team India failed miserably in every department.
Indian batsmen could not stand in front of African fast bowlers
In the match, host South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl. The batsmen of the Indian team, who came to bat first, could not stand against the African fast bowlers on the bouncy pitch of Centurion and the team was all out for just 245 runs. KL Rahul played an inning of 101 runs to take India to a respectable score. Apart from Rahul, no Indian batsman could last long against the African pacer. However, India scored 76 runs in the second innings.
Africa’s Kagiso Rabada took 5 wickets in India’s first innings. Apart from this, fast bowler Nandre Berger, who made his Test debut, took 3 wickets in his name. Apart from this, Marco Jansen and Gerald Coetzee took 1-1 wicket. Apart from this, once again the African pacers were seen dominating the Indian batsmen in the second innings. In India’s second innings, debutant Nandre Berger took the maximum of 4 wickets. Apart from this, Marco Yansen could not do anything special in the first innings, taking 3 wickets in his name. Kagiso Rabada, who took 5 wickets in the first innings, took 2 wickets. In both the innings, the African pacers kept the Indian batsmen in a bind.
What was the condition of Team India in fielding?
Team India fielded neither very well nor very poorly in the match. That means India’s fielding in the match can be called average. However, Africa also did not do anything special in fielding. Some catches were released towards Africa.
Team India failed in bowling, playing spinner was costly.
Team India looked in very poor condition in bowling. Host Africa, understanding the conditions very well, did not play any spinner nor did it bowl to any part-time spinner. At the same time, Team India played a spinner in the form of R Ashwin, who did not prove to be effective in any way. Ashwin could take only one wicket.
Apart from this, Indian pacers also could not do anything special. Main fast bowler Bumrah took 4 wickets. Apart from this, Siraj got 2 successes. Whereas debutant Prasidh Krishna could take only 1 wicket and he spent runs at an economy of 4.70. Apart from this, Shardul Thakur proved to be the most expensive, who conceded runs at an economy of 5.30 and took only 1 wicket.Â
