Different strokes at Wankhade
PrashantNews
What was the climax of the June 29 T20 World Cup final at Barbados? Was it just the magical catch by Suryakumar Yadav that changed the complexion of the game? Or was it some accurate spell of Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya also that brought India back into the reckoning?
While majority of the people give credit to all the team members, there are some top cricketers who singled out either Yadav or Pandya-Bumrah duo for the turnaround in the final match which was once slowly slipping away from India when South Africa just needed 30 runs off 30 balls with six wickets in hand.
In the packed Wankhade Stadium at Mumbai, former Indian skipper Virat Kohli applauded Bumrah for bringing India back into the game. “What he did in those last five overs, bowling two out of the last five overs, it was phenomenal. A huge round of applause for Jasprit Bumrah, please,” Kohli told a packed Wankhade Stadium on Friday night. Crazy fans at Wankhade stadium started chanting “Boom Boom” to cheer Bumrah. “What I like everyone to do is applaud a guy (Bumrah) who brought us back into game again and again in this tournament,” said Kohli.
On the other hand, Captain Rohit Sharma showered praise on Pandya and Yadav alike for taking that superb wicket and magical catch of David Miller. “Hardik was bowling that crucial over. Hat off to him (Pandya) for bowling that last over. We discussed lots of technical aspects of the last over as the wind was blowing very heavily across the ground. David Miller was a very dangerous player. When Hardik bowled that ball there was so much pressure to bowl that over. We wanted to keep it away from him (Miller). Hardik bowled that bowl and when it went up in the air. Obviously for a moment I thought it may go (with the wind over the rope). But it was written. Everything was written. I was glad that it didn’t carry to the ground so much, Surya to take that catch was exceptional. To take that catch right on the boundary was a great effort,” said Sharma amid huge applause from the crowd.