Man of the match Keegan Pietersen did his team proud as he led his team to a big win over India in the three-match Test series 2-1. The Proteas beat the visitors by seven wickets and Pietersen put on an 82 before Shardul Thakur let one in through the gates. He later revealed how the conditions were being tested in Cape Town, and like a good batsman he was ‘trying to be positive’.
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“It hasn’t dipped yet. To be honest it’s a mixed bag. Happy, emotional. I was trying to be positive and then build on that. It’s been tough situations all around and just stuck to my guns It’s been a long journey, can’t tell the full story right now, won’t finish till tomorrow morning. It’s been a challenging surface, a challenging bowling attack,” he said.
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Despite some good bowling from Jasprit Bumrah, South Africa resumed with a score of 101/2 and soon reached 15. Pujara was also guilty of getting Bumrah out earlier. Pietersen makes India pay for the gaffe. “We knew it was going to be difficult – they are a high quality bowling attack, a high quality team. We just wanted to have the mindset to fight it. Enjoying it (success) a lot. As long as you can Batting, it gets easier (on these pitches). So, just enjoyed it a lot.”
Pietersen walked away with both the player of the match and the best player of the series. Sunil Gavaskar dubbed it a “nightmare for India” as they weren’t even close to competing in the last two Tests and shared Dean Elgar’s ear-to-ear grin and bear hug with his teammates, It said everything.
It was especially sweet for the hosts, who had lost premier pacer Enrique Nortje to injury prior to the series and were then struck by the sudden mid-series retirement of Quinton de Kock. Meanwhile, the Indian team lost it’s mind after Elgar’s controversial DRS review, which went wrong on Thursday, and more use of the stump microphone to take a dig at broadcaster SuperSport instead of focusing on dismissing Pietersen He was focused on doing.
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