The impressive performance in the ongoing South Africa tour has helped improve Indian batsmen's reputation of not being good players of short-pitched balls, pace spearhead Bhuvneshwar Kumar has asserted
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
The impressive performance in the ongoing South Africa tour has helped improve Indian batsmen's reputation of not being good players of short-pitched balls, pace spearhead Bhuvneshwar Kumar has asserted. Bhuvneshwar said South Africa's ploy to unsettle Indian batsmen with short-pitched balls back-fired in the first Twenty20 on Sunday.
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"Whenever India goes abroad, the reputation is that India are not good at batting against short bowling. This time we have not seen that thing. We have really tackled it well. Today they bowled 5-6 overs of short bowling to us early on and it really backfired on them," Bhuvneshwar said after India's 28-run win.
"Whatever the reputation we had, in the last few years we are playing totally opposite of that. We have managed the short ball pretty well on this tour. They wanted to bowl short but it didn't really work well for them," he said. "What I was trying to do is bring about change of pace in my bowling. I just wanted to take the pace off the ball because I knew it won't be easy to hit the ball and that's what I did. The important thing is how you mix your deliveries."
BCCI's NCA bowling consultant Balvinder Singh Sandhu also praised Bhuvneshwar Kumar for his fifer in the T20 that made him the first Indian to bag a five-wicket haul
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