AB de Villiers impressed by Indian pacers' skills and pace

[express bowling]

Excerpt from an interviw 

 

"Known for his mantra with the batting and seen as a complete package, South African star batsman AB de Villiers revealed his side was surprised to witness the pace bowling attack on a slow surface at SuperSport Park in Centurion.

“India have really impressed me. They have surprised us in terms of pace bowling,” de Villiers was quoted as saying by PTI.

While hailing the efforts of India fast bowling attack while adding they have shown the consistency and bowled with much pace on the surface.

“They have showed a lot more skill and definitely there is a lot more pace than we expected,” de Villiers maintained. "

 

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[rkt.india]

To me, it was Bumrah who really gave them difficult time in second test. 

[Kohlifan]

Both the tests we did not lost because of our bowlers, but because of our batsmen. They are looking like sitting ducks in South Africa. I am afraid Pujara's time is over he does not have any gears bats in only one mode.

[SK_IH]

so what's the point of this thread?

[rkt.india]

7 minutes ago, Kohlifan said:

Both the tests we did not lost because of our bowlers, but because of our batsmen. They are looking like sitting ducks in South Africa. I am afraid Pujara's time is over he does not have any gears bats in only one mode.

you forgot first test, we let them score 286 after 12/3. that is where we lost the first test.

[Tattieboy]

17 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

so what's the point of this thread?

A drowning man will grab at anything 

[coffee_rules]

But, then he also says he is in form of his life!  No wonder he likes our bowling.

[Straight Drive]

“They have showed a lot more skill and definitely there is a lot more pace than we expected,” de Villiers maintained. "

 

Agree with that totally. The improvement in our first choice pace bowlers representing us at international level as well as bench bowlers and increase in quantity and quality of pace resources at domestic levels is seen for the first time. A lot of credit goes to a lot of people in Indian cricketing fraternity. Well done.

[rkt.india]

14 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

“They have showed a lot more skill and definitely there is a lot more pace than we expected,” de Villiers maintained. "

 

Agree with that totally. The improvement in our first choice pace bowlers representing us at international level as well as bench bowlers and increase in quantity and quality of pace resources at domestic levels is seen for the first time. A lot of credit goes to a lot of people in Indian cricketing fraternity. Well done.

We probably have more 140 kph bowlers in our cricket at this point than any other country. It is about time, we get a few world class bowlers out of them.

[mishra]

1 hour ago, Kohlifan said:

Both the tests we did not lost because of our bowlers, but because of our batsmen. They are looking like sitting ducks in South Africa. I am afraid Pujara's time is over he does not have any gears bats in only one mode.

Kohli and Kohli alone is responsible for India becoming a pi$$ poor batting side like Pakistan.

 

Also, proess has allready started. Wait for our bowling to disintegrate. Ishant Sharma Bhumrah, Saini will be only ones playing. Pandya, Bhuvi, Umesh, Shami, They are not better than IPL.

[express bowling]

1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

To me, it was Bumrah who really gave them difficult time in second test. 

 

Bumrah was our best pacer in the 2nd test  ... was able to extract life out of this pitch more regularly than our other quicks .

[CG]

you forgot first test, we let them score 286 after 12/3. that is where we lost the first test.

Catches! Kohli dropped Faf of Shami at 80-3 Imagine Dekock Coming against new ball.

[Straight Drive]

50 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

We probably have more 140 kph bowlers in our cricket at this point than any other country. It is about time, we get a few world class bowlers out of them.

With the betterment in count and quality of pace bowlers, the probability of unearthing world class pace bowlers is definitely more now. 

[rkt.india]

55 minutes ago, CG said:

2 hours ago, rkt.india said:

you forgot first test, we let them score 286 after 12/3. that is where we lost the first test.

Catches! Kohli dropped Faf of Shami at 80-3 Imagine Dekock Coming against new ball.

yes, one catch was dropped but did we create enough chances? We dropped more catches in 2nd test.

[Vilander]

2 hours ago, Kohlifan said:

Both the tests we did not lost because of our bowlers, but because of our batsmen. They are looking like sitting ducks in South Africa. I am afraid Pujara's time is over he does not have any gears bats in only one mode.

hi problem is not with the gears.

 

kohli and sashtri should keep their intent crap to themselves, may be Kohli excels when he has intent to attack. Other batsmen might excel when they have intent to leave the ball. They should not try to change the batting style of test level batters.

[CG]

yes, one catch was dropped but did we create enough chances? We dropped more catches in 2nd test.

It was a pivotal moment again we dropped maharaj at 200-7.That cost us the game.

[rkt.india]

10 minutes ago, Vilander said:

hi problem is not with the gears.

 

kohli and sashtri should keep their intent crap to themselves, may be Kohli excels when he has intent to attack. Other batsmen might excel when they have intent to leave the ball. They should not try to change the batting style of test level batters.

so true. people keep talking about need to play natural game, being aggressive. Natural game is different for every player and they need to stick to that. Pujara's natural game is different and he should stick to that. 

[Tattieboy]

" now Mr AB DeVilliers , you are 2-0 up out of 2....what do you think of our bowlers?

" Oh great, fantastic, bowling really well"

 

"Hope to hell they don't change them"

[Vilander]

5 hours ago, Tattieboy said:

" now Mr AB DeVilliers , you are 2-0 up out of 2....what do you think of our bowlers?

" Oh great, fantastic, bowling really well"

 

"Hope to hell they don't change them"

but its apparent its a batting and catching failure. Time and again bowlers put the SA batters in pressure only to see catches dropped and batsmen doing very poorly next innings.

[Vilander]

Meaning with such piss poor catching and batting India was only able to compete and get to some winning positions because of bowling, agreed only to squander is without a fight but they did get to winning positions and bowling is to be thanked for that.