-Vinay Kumar
Before its first match in the ICC T20 World Cup, 2022, a major problem of the Indian team was found. Today, on Monday, October 17, in a warm-up match played against Australia (IND vs AUS Warm-Up Match T20 World Cup, 2022), Team India defeated Australia’s team chasing the target by 6 runs. In this match, the bowling of the last two death overs broke Australia’s back and they lost.
Significantly, there was a time in this match, when Australia looked close to victory. He needed only 11 runs in 6 balls of the 20th over to win. At such a time, Team India’s captain Rohit Sharma made a bet. After not bowling even one over from Mohammed Shami till the 19th over, he got the last over done by Shami. Shami showed the way to the pavilion to 3 Australian batsmen in the last over with his deadly bowler and India won.
The special thing to see was that Shami bowled 4 yorkers in his over. In this, Josh Inglis was clean bowled in the last 2 Surra balls and Kane Richardson in the second. In the over, he also used short ball apart from low full toss (Mohammad Shami low full toss). That is, bowling with variation and showed Australia the stars in the day.
Significantly, for the past few months, the Indian team had to face defeat in some matches due to lack of effective bowling in the death overs. But, now it seems that Mohammed Shami can prove to be a lifeblood for Team India.
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Like Mohammad Shami, Harshal Patel also used Surra properly
Like Mohammed Shami, Harshal Patel also made perfect use of Surra (Yorker) in the nineteenth over of the match. He bowled a slow yorker in the very first ball of this over and Aaron Finch got clean bowled in the process of playing a big shot. After that, he also bowled yorker and the last two balls were full toss. Harshal Patel also did a good variation. Australia scored 5 runs in his over and Harshal took two wickets. From here, the turn of the match was reversed.
Australia’s 8 wickets fell in the last 5 overs
Significantly, Australia’s team, which came to the ground to chase the target from India, was playing at 144 runs for the loss of 2 wickets after 15 overs at one time. Only 43 runs were needed in 30 balls to win. There were 8 wickets in hand. But, in front of the dangerous bowling of Harshal Patel and Mohammed Shami, Australia’s 8 wickets kept falling daily. 8 wickets were taken in the last 5 overs.