1st T20I: Arshdeep, Chahar restrict South Africa to 106/8
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 28: India's reserve seamers Arshdeep Singh and Deepak Chahar made the white Kookaburra talk with some incisive swing bowling that restricted South Africa to 106/8 in the first T20 International here on Wednesday.
With Jasprit Bumrah pulling out of the game due to his recurrent back problem which has resurfaced once again, it gave left-armer Arshdeep (3/32 in 4 overs) and Chahar (2/24 in 4 overs) chance to appreciably move the ball both ways, making full use of the nip in the air and the bounce off the surface.
South Africa were rocked in a space of 15 deliveries and before they knew what hit them, the Proteas were reeling at 9 for 5 on a pitch that had a fair covering of grass and certainly some underlying moisture.
Temba Bavuma (0) was nicely set up by Chahar with stock outswingers, which the skipper left alone before a banana inswinger had him bowled through the gate. The deviation into the batter was as big as it could be.
Arshdeep started by taking the ball shade away from the left-hander and Quinton de Kock (1) in his bid to get a move-on dragged one back onto the stumps.
The other left-hander Rilee Rossouw (0) also chased a wide outswinger (inswinger by the bowler) to nick one to Rishabh Pant behind the stumps.
But it was the delivery by Arshdeep to David Miller (0) that will be remembered for a long time to come.
Miller was anticipating an outswinger and had committed on the front-foot only to find that the bowler had got one to bend back into him. His atrocious across-the-line shot would have resulted in only one thing and that was getting castled.
New T20 sensation Tristan Stubbs (0) didn't get enough wood to his slash over deep to a delivery from Chahar that bounced a shade more. The result was Arshdeep taking a well-judged catch diving in-front.
With five wickets gone, there was no coming back for South Africa and predictably there wasn't any change in the script.
Aiden Markram (25 off 24 balls), Wayne Parnell (24 off 37 balls) and Keshav Maharaj (41 off 35 balls) did try their bit in resurrecting the innings but the damage done during the first three overs of Powerplay did affect the approach of the visitors severely.
The bowlers like Ravichandran Ashwin (0/8 in 4 overs), Axar Patel (1/16 in 4 overs) and the normally profligate Harshal Patel (2/26 in 4 overs) had no problems in continuing to choke the run-flow.
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Asked if I was gay, hit on head when I didn't respond: B'luru man assaulted in restaurant washroom
Bengaluru: A 23-year-old executive from a private company was allegedly assaulted by an individual at a restaurant in Bengaluru’s Ashoknagar following a minor disagreement.
The man, a resident of Cox Town, alleged that he was assaulted by an unknown person in the restaurant's washroom around 11:00 PM last week, as reported by Deccan Herald on Saturday.
He visited the restaurant with two friends and went to the washroom after the meal.
The man told the police that an unknown individual asked him if he was gay, but he chose not to respond, as mentioned by DH. “He kept asking me. He asked me again when I was heading out and hit me on my head when I didn’t answer,” the man said.
His friend contacted the police helpline, but by the time they arrived, the suspect had already fled, as per the FIR filed with the Cubbon Park police.
The police are currently searching for the individual responsible for the alleged assault. An FIR has been lodged under BNS sections 126(2) (wrongful restraint) and 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt).
