Rohit Sharma India vs South Africa : The first match of the Test series being played between India and South Africa has started from today in Centurion. South African captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and without any delay decided to bowl first. The match started late due to rain and the pitch was covered for a long time, due to which there was moisture in it. To take advantage of this, Bavuma decided to bowl first. Exactly the same thing happened. South Africa’s bowlers left no stone unturned in destroying India’s entire top order. Not only this, meanwhile fast bowler Kagiso Rabada created a new record by dismissing Indian captain Rohit Sharma.
Kagiso Rabada sent Rohit Sharma to the pavilion
Team India captain Rohit Sharma was the bowler who got out the most number of times in international cricket till now, while New Zealand’s Tim Southee was the bowler. But now Kagiso Rabada has gone ahead of him. Tim Southee has dismissed Rohit Sharma 12 times, while Kagiso Rabada has now dismissed him 13 times. Keep in mind here that we are talking about international cricket, which includes T20, Test and ODI. Whereas Angelo Mathews of Sri Lanka has dismissed Rohit Sharma ten times. Rohit Sharma has become the victim of Australia’s Nathan Lyon 9 times. Whereas New Zealand’s Trent Boult has dismissed Rohit eight times. Before getting out in this match, Rohit Sharma scored 5 runs in 14 balls and this included only one four. He was out on his favorite stroke on which he has scored hundreds of runs till now, i.e. pull.
Team India’s top order collapsed in front of South Africa
Meanwhile, if we talk about the Indian innings, after being invited to bat first, captain Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal came to open. When the team’s score was only 13 runs, Rohit Sharma got out and returned to the pavilion. After this all hopes were on Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal. But when the team’s score increased by 10 runs to 23 runs, Yashasvi Jaiswal was also out after scoring 17 runs on 37 balls. The score had just reached 24 runs when Shubman Gill returned to the pavilion after scoring one run on 12 balls. In this way, even before 25 runs were completed, the top three batsmen of the Indian team were out and the Indian team seemed to be in trouble.
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