Mohammed Shami has been dominated out of the two-match Test collection towards South Africa beginning right here on Tuesday.
South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma has utmost respect for India’s expertise pool and he believed that the pacer who replaces injured Mohammed Shami can put house batters under stress in Tests.
Shami, India’s craftiest pacer in current occasions, has sustained a heel damage and has been dominated out of the two-match Test collection beginning right here Tuesday.
One amongst rookie Prasidh Krishna or one-Test previous Mukesh Kumar is anticipated to switch Shami within the enjoying eleven.
“As cricketers you want to come up against the best and Mohammed Shami is one of the best going around and most of us would be looking forward to coming up against him.
But India being India, and with the depth that they have, you have to trust that whoever comes in will also put you under pressure,” Bavuma replied to a question from PTI through the media convention on Sunday.
The Proteas skipper sounded hopeful that his workforce has a greater probability to adapt under overcast circumstances with rain threatening to play spoilsport on Day 1.
“Being home conditions, we understand the advantage our side has, you will expect us to adapt a lot better and Indian bowling attack is quite a strong one and obviously Shami is not there but it’s still a strong one. The fact that they have been able to achieve so much success in Tests over the past 5-10 years period is because of that bowling attack,” he lavished reward.
South African males’s cricket workforce has remained unbeaten for 31 years on house soil and Bavuma is eager to maintain that document intact.
He understands that enjoying India comes with its personal set of challenges.
“We understand playing (against) India comes with challenges as there are more eyeballs involved.” South Africa just lately performed a pretty model of ODI cricket through the World Cup.
But in response to Bavuma, with kids within the aspect, SA are nonetheless determining their signature model of cricket.
But one factor is non-negotiable for the skipper – it must be a successful model of cricket.
“In terms of brand, there has definitely been talk about it, not just now but also during the West Indies series. We are still trying to see how it looks like.
Looking at the Test team, it’s still in a discovery phase and still evolving as you see a lot more new faces, we are still trying to see what the final product will look like,” he mentioned.
He didn’t need to put stress on his workforce to play any specific model of cricket.
“I don’t think there is any extra pressure on players to get a lot more eyes on Test cricket and the objective will be to play a winning brand of cricket. That’s what we will try to do.”
