WATCH: Rohit Sharma scolds Navdeep Saini; asks him to use his brain during India vs South Africa 3rd T20I

Dixit Bhargav | 25/09/2019
WATCH: Rohit Sharma scolds Navdeep Saini; asks him to use his brain during India vs South Africa 3rd T20I

Rohit Sharma scolds Navdeep Saini: The Indian vice-captain was unhappy with the fast bowler’s loose delivery against Temba Bavuma. 

During the third T20I of the ongoing South Africa’s tour of India in Bengaluru, India vice-captain Rohit Sharma was seen scolding fast bowler Navdeep Saini after he conceded a boundary off South Africa batsman Temba Bavuma.

It all happened on the penultimate delivery of the 12th over when Saini’s attempt to bowl a yorker saw him bowling a full-toss on the pads off Bavuma. With the batsman easily clipping the ball away for a boundary towards the mid-wicket region, he collected consecutive boundaries off Saini.

With no deep mid-wicket in place for Saini, Sharma didn’t appreciate the bowler’s idea of bowling at such a line. Just as Bavuma hit the shot, Sharma was seen signaling Saini to use his brain.

With South Africa needing 49 runs off nine overs before the start of this over, they already stood firm to chase a 135-run total. An unbeaten 64-run partnership for the second wicket between captain Quinton de Kock (79) and Bavuma (27) saw the visitors sealing the chase in the 17th over.

The South African victory saw the three-match ending in a 1-1 draw. Having scored 131 runs in two matches at an average of 131 and a strike rate of 147.19, de Kock ended the series as its highest run-scorer and was subsequently awarded with the ‘Man of the Series’ award.

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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