IND vs SA Centurion Review:The Test series between India and South Africa has begun. The first match of this series will be played at Centurion, in which on the first day, the host team’s captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and invited India to bat, destroying Team India’s batting order.
India had lost 6 wickets for just 121 runs and at the end of the day’s play, Team India’s score was 208 runs for the loss of 8 wickets, including KL Rahul’s unbeaten innings of 70 runs. In this innings of Team India, the first wicket fell to captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma got out while playing his favorite shot, the pull shot, and Team India got the first bat.
Rabada dismissed Rohit straight from the pull toss
It’s not like Rohit Sharma was missed on a pull shot by chance as South Africa’s legendary fast bowler Kagiso Rabada dismissed Rohit Sharma as planned. Rabada knew that Rohit would definitely pull the short ball, so Rabada just kept one fielder on the boundary line and the ball went straight into his hands. Rohit returned to the pavilion after scoring just 5 runs after which many more Team India wickets also fell very quickly."text-align: justify;">Fans upset over shot selection
In such a situation, fans including many cricket experts expressed their displeasure over Rohit’s shot and said that there was even a need to take such risky shots in a Test match. Sanjay Manjrekar, who provided Hindi commentary during the match, had also said that Rabada had earlier also dismissed Rohit for his favorite shot but Rohit will have to control his shot in the Test format. Many Team India fans are also saying similar things on social media.
Batting coach supported Rohit
However, in the press conference after the end of the first day’s play, Team India’s batting coach Vikram Rathore supported Rohit Sharma’s batting selection and said: "Pull is a shot where Rohit has scored a lot of runs. He believes in this shot, that it is his shot. Some days he gets the shot, some days he doesn’t. The next day he will hit a six again with the same shot, then people will say he is the best hitter. So we have no problem with that, the team management fully supports him."
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