The Indian team has lost the first match of Super-8. While chasing the target of 188 runs set by South Africa, Team India collapsed for 111 runs. Abhishek Sharma also became one of the main reasons for the defeat of Team India. On one hand, there is the pressure of being out on ‘0’ three times in a row, on the other hand, the pressure of a big match like Super-8. Under this pressure, Abhishek flopped again. If Abhishek had batted intelligently at the right time, perhaps the Indian team’s chances of victory would have increased.
Reason for Abhishek Sharma’s defeat, how?
The pitch at Narendra Modi Stadium is conducive for batting, so South Africa scoring 187 runs was not a surprise. Now the remaining work had to be done by the Indian batsmen.
There was a target of 188 in front, in-form batsman Ishan Kishan got out while trying to play a big shot on the fourth ball of the innings. Next over came, Marco Jansen also dismissed Tilak Verma. Team India had lost 2 wickets for 5 runs. Abhishek had the opportunity to bat in a composed manner and play a sensible innings and get the team out of trouble.
silly shot
The score was 5/2, after Tilak was out, as soon as Abhishek Sharma got the next ball, he started swinging the bat. Even when Team India was bowling, it was seen that there was unusual bounce in the pitch, especially Jasprit Bumrah took advantage of this through variations. South African bowlers were also trying to take advantage of the conditions and Abhishek was constantly trying to give away his wicket for free by swinging the bat in the air.
Actually this is what happened. Marco Jansen moved his fingers on the ball and Abhishek’s bat spun. Since Jansen had bowled a slower ball, the timing of Abhishek’s shot went wrong. Now where were the Africans going to leave such a big catch?
Just a few days ago, former Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Aamir had addressed Abhishek Sharma as ‘Lappebaaz’. But the Indian opening batsman has proved Aamir’s point right by hitting the shot in an immature manner. After the early dismissals of Tilak and Ishan, Abhishek should have ensured that he along with captain Suryakumar Yadav made a partnership of at least 40-50 runs to get India back in the match.
