Though South Africa: Former India cricketer Atul Wassan feels that the Indian batters took on South Africa with a strong mindset to avenge their recent loss in the two-match Test series against the same opposition. India posted a 350-run target in the first innings, riding on Virat Kohli’s century and half-centuries by Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.
Speaking exclusively to IANS about India’s approach in the game, Wassan said the team will have to play well since they’re all high-ranked players. He opined that the Men in Blue were ‘frustrated’ after the Test loss and wanted to vent it out in the ODIs, which they did as a unit.
“They have to play good innings; they’re good players, and they’ll have to play well. I feel that nowadays there’s a fixed template in ODIs. If we start talking about every single player’s innings, we’ll just keep going on and on. Speaking of Virat, since he’s scored a hundred, and the team’s recently lost Tests to South Africa, it seems like an embarrassed cat scratching the pole’ situation like the proverb. India are frustrated. After losing the Test match, they wanted to take it out on them completely. So the entire unit did well with the bat,” Wassan said.
