Watch: Bhuvneshwar Kumar Castles AB de Villiers with a Big Inswinger
Published - 25 Jan 2018, 06:12 PM | Updated - 22 Aug 2024, 11:48 PM
When the team sheets for the 2nd Test between India and South Africa were announced, most of the cricketing pundits and experts were a little dumfound to see Bhuvneshwar Kumar not in the playing XI especially after he made life difficult for the South African batters in the opening Test at the Newlands in Cape Town.
After missing the 2nd Test, Bhuvneshwar made a comeback in the 3rd and the final Test and made an immediate impact by getting India back into the game with a brilliant piece of swing bowling on the 2nd day morning. It was an exceptional spell of fast bowling by the Swing King as the South African batsmen could hardly cope with his inswingers and outswingers and kept missing one after the other.
South Africa began the 2nd day’s play on 6/1 with Dean Elgar and Kagiso Rabada starting proceedings. It was Bhuvneswar who removed Elgar with a brilliant outswinger and Parthiv Patel behind the stumps pouched it without a fuss. There was a sensational partnership of 64 runs between Hashim Amla and nightwatchman Kagiso Rabada which started frustrating the Indian bowlers.
It was Ishant Sharma who gave India the much-needed breakthrough with the wicket of Kagiso Rabada as South Africa went to lunch on 80/3. It was AB de Villiers who came into the crease at the fall of his wicket and never looked relaxed in the crease. He was fortunate to survive a close LBW call and would have been heading to the pavilion had Virat Kohli gone for the review.
However, Bhuvneshwar Kumar didn’t allow de Villiers to make amends. He set him up brilliantly with four outswingers and then unleashed the big inswinger, and de Villiers had no answer. It breached his defence comprehensively and disturbed the timbers. The match is currently in the balance.
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Watch: Virat misses a DRS as De Villiers was trapped right in front by Ishant Sharma
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