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You have to credit the Indian bowlers; they barely bowled bad balls in the last few matches! Actually, they barely bowled, is what one could say! They made the batters work for it!
I mean, Kuldeep, our full-time spinner, might not even get a wicket this match, because the clean-up was done well before he arrived.
This was total humiliation, they arrived at the World Cup without even being the favorites, then they surprised us with their attacking play and now suddenly it’s like they fell into a ditch!
They looked totally unprepared, I always wonder what plans any opposition has against spinners like Jadeja and Kuldeep.
The one positive thing I can think of was the fielding; that RVD catch of KLR was brilliant.
Bavuma takes that blinder to dismiss Rohit.
QDK extends his body like an X-man to dismiss SKY.
Rohit got a 40!
Gill is dismissed for 23; what an amazing delivery to send him home, Maharaj absolutely delivers!
Iyer gets 77
They all played supporting roles to the man himself, the birthday boy!
He’s our superhuman athlete, with 49 centuries, I bet he’ll get his 50th before the World Cup ends. He gets a lifeline when it nicks off Shamsi, QDK is a good keeper, and he barely misses!
And somehow, he’s not toppin’ the list today it’s the bowlers!
There was so much chatter about Kohli being slow, he scored a century off 119 balls! How the hell is that bad? On a day like today, on a pitch like this, where the entire SA batting collapsed, people were complaining about a “selfish knock”, twitter is crazy, Reddit is full of lunatics.
327 felt like a million runs for the South Africans as they walked in to bat against a cool and calm Rohit with his troops.
Siraj chops one back into QDK
Bavuma looked decent with two fours but JADEJA! He turns one back outside edge and gets Bavuma is out in his third ball, this is now his textbook delivery, and it works every single time! In fact, that was the similar delivery that Maharaj used to get Gill out in the first innings. (This is a beauty. Pushed through even faster, angling into the middle then turns away to beat the outside edge and hit the off stump)
Shami struck to remove Markram!
Klassen makes everyone nervous and he was gone for just 1! Rohit Sharma reviewed it after a little jab saying “he’s the only batter (Jaddu), let’s just take it”
The delivery seemed so sus to be honest, there was a decent amount of turn after it pitched, and the ball seemed to move after the impact in an angle, it felt like it should’ve been at least umpire’s call. How does that angle change after the impact point, doesn’t make any sense to me but hey it’s the 3rd umpire with his tech! Klassen looked baffled, so did the ump. And that’s when we got a bit of raw Kohli reactions, so let’s go to the Kohli cam!
Also, you can’t sweep that easily against Jadeja!
In the 14th over, Jansen walks in, it was just the time to salvage and not get out quickly, but Miller played an absolutely shit shot to get out, look at it!
It was just a matter of time before Jadeja got another spinner Maharaj with another beautiful Length ball landed around leg and Maharaj went square-on and tried to block it straight. Got beaten on the outside edge to hand Jadeja his first four-for in World Cups.
Jadeja becomes the only Indian spinner to get a fifer in a World Cup, what an absolute superstar he’s been!
Conclusion
So that’s 8 out of 8 for India, they defeated everyone! The only match I wanted to watch live was this one in a stadium, but this is an absolute one-sided destruction. I did not expect this!
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