Xtra Time Web Desk: Team India opened the innings with a successful note after it dismissed the dangerous Dean Elgar, similar performance is required for India to win the first ever Test Series against South Africa.
Team India pacer Jasprit Bumrah picked the most needed Elgar’s wicket, made former Team India Captain Sunil Gavaskar feel Bumrah would be the key bowler for Kohli.
“He is the bowler the South Africans worry about most. Look at what Jasprit Bumrah can do. He can bowl the slower delivery. He has got the delivery which leaves the left-hander which is where he got Elgar. He has got the one the one that moves slightly away from the right hander. He has got the fast yorker, the slow yorker. A very sharp bouncer. He has got the goods. He has got everything over there. He unfurls all these weapons very cleverly at the right time,” Gavaskar said on The Byju’s Cricket Live Show in Star Sports.
Gavaskar further explained, “That is the reason we saw that spell – four overs, four maidens. No one could lay a bat to it. Elgar did it and he was caught. So he is going to be the key. So how Kohli uses him and what sort of bursts he gives to him is also going to decide the fate of the Indian team. He has to be used in good short spell.”