Indian pacesetters deserve a lot of credit for India’s recent success in overseas conditions.© AFP
India lead the three-game run 1-0 and will aim for their first-ever Test series win in South Africa when both teams take to the field for the second Test, which starts on January 3 at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg . While KL Rahul’s barrel provided some much-needed thrust for the struggling Indian batters in the first innings in Centurion, the fast bowlers – Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj – fired on all cylinders, causing South Africa’s striking power to collapse in both the collections.
India has never lost a test match in Johannesburg and Virat Kohli hopes his pacers can help them keep that record in the second test, which starts on Monday.
India has had great success in overseas conditions, and statistics prove that the Indian bowlers, especially the pacers, deserve a lot of credit for that.
For the record, the Indian pacers have taken 340 test wickets since 2018 – the most by any team in the same period as well.
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In addition, India’s pace bowling unit has a strike rate of 51.0 in away matches under the captaincy of Virat Kohli – the best for a captain who has led his team in 20 or more tests.
In the first innings of the Centurion Test, the Indian bowlers took all 10 wickets for the 10th time in an away test since 2018, which is also a record.
Last but not least, the last time India played a Test in Johannesburg, all 20 wickets were taken by the pacers.
This was only the second time all 20 wickets have been taken by pacers in Tests – the other being the Nottingham Test against England last year – and both have come under Kohli’s captaincy.
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