Manjrekar emphasised the crucial nature of dropping pivotal moments in a match, stating that such lapses can finally end in dropping your entire sport.Whereas chatting with ESPNcricinfo, Manjrekar commented on the errors made by the 36-year-old captain in each Take a look at matches, noting that these errors proved expensive for the guests, significantly within the consequence of the primary Take a look at.
“In Take a look at cricket should you lose moments, you lose the sport. Rohit made errors in each Exams and whereas it price us massively within the first sport, fortunately Siraj had given allowance for the second Take a look at. Siraj bowling only one over when Markram was scoring and the lead swelled to 60 was a mistake,” Manjrekar advised ESPNcricinfo.
Referring to Rohit as an “old-school” participant within the longer format, the previous skipper asserted that there could be no contest if Rohit prolongs his profession on this method.
“Rohit Sharma remains to be among the many final of the old-school Take a look at batters. Solely he can inform us how a lot Take a look at cricket he needs to play. I feel if he needs to increase his Take a look at profession, there will likely be no competitors. Virat Kohli I really feel will play so long as attainable and fortunately for us. This tour in powerful situations simply the distinction between him and the following greatest Take a look at batter India has at the least till Rishabh Pant is again,” he added.
Recapping the second Take a look at match, South Africa elected to bat first and was bundled out for simply 55 in 23.2 overs, with Kyle Verreynne (15) and David Bedingham (12) being the only real gamers to the touch double digits.
Mohammed Siraj’s fiery spell of 6/15 destroyed the Proteas’ high and center order, whereas Jasprit Bumrah (2/25) and Mukesh Kumar (0/2) additionally took wickets.
Of their first innings, India was 153/4 at one level, with stable scores coming from Virat Kohli (46 in 59 balls, with six fours and a six), Rohit Sharma (39 in 50 balls, with seven fours) and Shubman Gill (36 in 55 balls, with 5 fours), however a Lungi Ngidi three-wicket over sunk India to 153 all out in 34.5 overs.
Ngidi (3/30), Kagiso Rabada (3/38) and Nandre Burger (3/42) took three wickets every for SA.
Later of their second innings, SA ended the day one at 62/3, with Aiden Markram (36*) doing the majority of the scoring. Skipper Dean Elgar managed 12 runs in his last Take a look at innings. Mukesh acquired two whereas Bumrah acquired one wicket. On the following day, although Markram scored a combating century, a knock of 106 in 103 balls with 17 fours and two sixes, the six-wicket haul by Bumrah (6/61) bundled out SA for 176 in 36.5 overs, setting India simply 79 runs to win.
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Mukesh Kumar took two wickets whereas Prasidh Krishna and Siraj acquired one. With the assistance of knocks from openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (28) and skipper Rohit Sharma (16*), India chased down the overall with seven wickets in hand in 12 overs.
Siraj received the ‘Participant of the Match’ award and either side shared the trophy with the scoreline at 1-1.
(With ANI Inputs)
