India defeated South Africa by 17 runs in the first match of the 3-match ODI series, but in the celebration of victory, the bowling department made a shameful record which had never happened before in the history of ODI cricket. Team India had set a target of 350 runs to win against South Africa in this match, despite this the Indian team could win this match with a small margin, which created a big tension in front of the team management.
Shameful record of Indian bowlers
Chasing the target of 350 runs, South Africa had a very bad start, the team lost the first 3 wickets for 11 runs. Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana managed to make a good start. In the powerplay, Harshit Rana took 2 wickets and Arshdeep Singh took 1 wicket. But after this, there was a great fight from the African team and it scored 332 runs while batting in 49.2 overs, which means it came very close to victory, but in the end it got all out.
With this, India has become the first team which took the first three wickets for less than 15 runs while saving the target of 300+ runs, yet the opposite team managed to cross the 300 mark. Such an incident had never happened before in the history of ODI cricket. At one time it seemed that the South African team would not be able to reach even 200 runs. But the Indian bowlers failed to take advantage of the good start.
Bowlers spent a lot of runs
In this match, the economy of every Indian bowler was more than 6. Arshdeep Singh spent 64 runs in 10 overs and took 2 wickets. Harshit Rana also gave away 65 runs to achieve 3 successes. Prasidh Krishna also gave 48 runs in 7.2 overs and took 1 wicket. On the other hand, Kuldeep Yadav gave 68 runs in 10 overs, but he managed to achieve 4 successes. Apart from these, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar did not get any success.
In this match, the target was big, but while defending a small target, such bowling can prove costly for Team India. Lack of experience was also visible in the fast bowling unit. Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana have not played many ODI matches at present, on the other hand, Prasidh Krishna is also not a regular part of the team. At the same time, senior bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj are not part of the team. Somewhere the team is definitely missing these bowlers and the upcoming matches can prove to be very important for these bowlers.
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