Thrilled to watch the way our indian fast bowlers bowled yesterday.when was the last time an Indian fast bowler bounced a ball into the helmet of the batsman?
Can you imagine years back an incident like the Dean Elgar.
On Friday when Jasprit Bumrah got some uneven bounce and South African opener Dean Elgar could not get his head out of the way in time. After the ball slammed against Elgar’s helmet, play was called off due to the dangerous nature of the pitch.
The whole series has been a revelation of Indian fast bowlers, four to five of them in three Tests, have bowled South Africa out for 286, 130, 335, 258, and 194 (I write this before the fourth day’s play on Saturday) in five innings. They have troubled the local batsmen with swing, pace and bounce and looked no less than their South African counterparts, though Vernon Philander, Kagiso Rabada and Morne Morkel together have more wickets than Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
“9-7-4-2. That’s not an OTP, that’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s bowling figures after his extended morning spell on Day 2,” said a Tweet such domination in seam-friendly pitches is fairly rare for us.
While India lost this series largely due to their batting, the dream of a generation of fans is coming true with this fast bowling attack. Since the time of the 1980s, when our team was given a serious inferiority complex by the fast bowling machinery of the West Indies and Pakistan, have fans dreamed of a scenario when India would have a similar setup of pacers. Probably for the first time, the team has such riches that they could afford to sit their fastest bowler, Umesh Yadav, and still bowl the opposition out consistently with four-and-a-half pacers (Hardik Pandya included).