Dravid, who used to bowl part-time spin throughout his taking part in days, was seen rolling his arm over however this time as a medium-pacer, stunning the Indian cricket followers.
Alongside Dravid, Virat Kohli too was seen bowling his medium-pacers within the warm-up session forward of the toss
Commentator Sanjay Bangar, who used to play with Dravid, too was shocked seeing the India head coach bowling fast within the warm-up session.
“Effectively, he did many of the issues that had been requested of him from a participant standpoint – opened the batting, batted at 3,5,6, stored wicket. So that is one thing that I’m shocked with. I’ve by no means seen Rahul Dravid do that. But it surely’s all the time good as a result of as coaches you do issues that you simply aren’t used to so to see. And there is nothing fallacious along with his motion; he appears fairly aligned and simply has so as to add slightly little bit of piece. In any other case, he appears to be like fairly alright,” Bangar stated.
Proteas pacer Kagiso Rabada highlighted the opening day of the primary Take a look at with a fifer as India ended the rain-marred day at 208 for 8.
KL Rahul hit a gritty unbeaten 70 whereas Kohli and Shreys Iyer hit 38 and 31 respectively.
