The Indian pacer Mohammed Siraj was impressive with his bowling returns of 6/15 during the first innings of the second Test against South Africa.
Mohammed Siraj’s six-wicket haul at Cape Town Test
Mohammed Siraj produced an impressive spell of fast bowling as he dismissed six batters during the first innings of the first test in India’s South Africa tour.
India is scheduled to play in the second and final test against South Africa on January 04 at Newlands Cricket Ground. Siraj’s wickets came from the nine overs he bowled. He made use of the pitch conditions to offer a disaster to the Proteas batting unit.
Out of those Bedingham and Verreynne were the ones to score double-digit runs with Siraj destroying the batting unit. Mukesh Kumar who made his debut and Jasprit Bumrah picked two wickets each.”
While Speaking at the toss, Rohit Sharma said, “Would’ve batted first as well. Looks a good pitch. We understand the challenge of batting first on that pitch, but nevertheless, there will be enough in the pitch for the seamers, so hopefully we’ll cash in on it.”
“Important to forget what’s happened in the past. We understand the importance of getting runs on the board, and getting 20 wickets. Didn’t happen in the first game but we’re upbeat about what we can achieve here.”
“Two changes. Jadeja comes back for Ashwin. Shardul misses out, Mukesh Kumar replaces him.”
Winning the toss, Proteas Men chose to bat where they concluded their first innings for 55 runs. The fall of wickets started over when Aiden Markram caught out in slip. Right after his dismissal, Dean Elgar was bowled out which gave a perfect game for India at Cape Town.
India started their innings where Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma where the young batter was sent out with a duck. Rohit Sharma scored 39 runs on 50 deliveries and was sent out by Nandre Burger.
Nandre Burger was impressive as he dismissed Indian skipper, Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer. Shubman Gill scored 36 runs which included 5 boundaries. India scored 111 runs for four wickets before the tea break.
