Cricket Internet Presents the Short Story of 2nd day. India vs South Afirca at Mohali. To watch lie scores and ball by ball detail Click Here
On a spin-friendly pitch of Mohali South Africa followed defeat because of batting failure as compared to Indian normal pitch in Bangalore. Pattern repeated itself, Nagpur was traitorous to batsmen, Delhi is in favor of both bat and ball with 50-50 percentage, but fortune of SA’s batsmen remains same.
India give 334 leads to SA but due to bad performance of batsmen SA bowled out at 121, just 14 short of follow on. Match was stop due to bad light problem after India has confirmed they weren’t going to bat again.
This situation of test match shows how poor South Africa’s batsmen play but also how well managed India bowled. This game must have psychological effect, this is shown at the time of dismissal of Faf du Plessis, who faces a horror able tour. As he was trying to play predetermined short and came out of pitch at the third ball he strike. But in here, in Mohali, he trying to play a sweep short and give easy catch to leg slip. Ajinkya Rahane has much time to run from off slip to leg to take a catch. It doesn’t matter what type of conditions are, its difficult to perform when you any batsmen is out of form on the losing side.
South Africa is in fair position at tea with 38 for 1. But they dissolved in the final session, as most of teams often do on Indian pitches, so SA lose its 9 wickets on just 83 runs. South Africa lose most of the wickets by the mistakes of its batsmen but most of by poor judgment of ball. Hashim Amla and Temba Bavuma were out by Ravindra Jadeja by cutting deliveries that weren’t short. Dane Vilas and JP Duminy out due to pinned their feet in crease and played reverse swing.
These two wickets, Duminy faced on straight ball of Umesh Yadav before facing reverse swing delivery on which he give wicket and Vila’s face delivery of Ishant Sharma by bending the bowl in between bat and pad, besides had a lot to do with ability of generate reverse swing and perfect length bowled by Indian seamers. In 15th over, as early as, Umesh take wicket of Dean Elgar, biggest opening stand from SA in this series, by finding the outside edge from around the wicket.
To find a rhythm Indian seamers take little time, as Ishant ball too wide slantingly to sort Elgar play early on as well as Umesh drift ball so many time in the pads of openers in his 1st spell, but once they find, they attacking the stumps persistently. ----------
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