Ranchi: A dominant Indian team ticked all boxes with ease as they completed a 3-0 clean sweep against South Africa with a comprehensive innings and 202 runs victory in the third and final Test on Tuesday.
The scoreline was not only an indicator of India's absolute dominance in the recent past but also the decline in standard of South African cricket as they couldn't handle strengthened Indian batting and the fiery India fast bowling lead by Mohammed Shami in the absence of Jasprit Bumrah.
Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav rattled the Proteas batting line up with pace and bounce, something which was never associated with Indian bowling in the history. This is India's sixth clean sweep at home in a three-Test series
It took only 12 balls for India to complete their maiden whitewash over South Africa in a Test series. Shahbaz Nadeem got the final two wickets as India trampled over South Africa by an innings and 202 runs to pocket the series 3-0.
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Meanwhile Team India head coach Ravi Shastri shared his thoughts on the dominant Indian performance,
“Our motto was to take pitches out of the equation. ‘Bhaad me gaya pitch’ (to hell with the pitches). Whether it’s Johannesburg or Melbourne or Mumbai, we want to take the pitch out of the equation. With the batting line-up we have, if they post big totals and then we have bowlers who can take 20 wickets - we can keep taking those world championship points we’re after. Rahane was never going to go anywhere, he had to rediscover his touch which he’s done,” Shastri told Star Sports after the match.
Shastri also spoke about Rohit Sharma and how he was in a different league and took to his new opening role and made the most of it.
“Rohit - different plane altogether. As an opener, your mindset has to be different. On the first day here, it was touch. Rohit worked his way out of it, but he kept thinking he had to work hard and cash in when the pitch gets better. That’s what happened. Normally in India, you have two players who hog the limelight. Here we’ve had six or seven payers,” he further added.
Former India captain and BCCI President-elect Sourav Ganguly also saw heaps of praise on Rohit Sharma's maiden double hundred, said he is very happy with the way Rohit Sharma is playing as a Test opener, also hailing the comeback of Umesh Yadav in the ongoing South Africa series.
“I am very happy for Rohit. I don’t need to say that he is a top batsman. We all know what he can do,” Ganguly told reporters at the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) premises.
Rohit was the top-scorer in the Freedom trophy test series with 529 runs, hitting a record number of 19 sixes.
Now team India awaits Bangladesh's challenge at home.
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