5 reasons why Team India lost at Durban

Inability to play short stuff

Ishant Sharma avoiding a short pitched ball

The Indians were done quite often by the short stuff that the South Africans kept throwing at them. Rohit Sharma was hit on the head twice and so was Pujara. The tail was attacked with short pitched stuff and a short fine leg to rattle them. Except for Rahane no Indian batsman looked capable of facing the body blows which pushed them to the back in the crease. The SA bowlers thus gained upper hand by pitching up the ball to invite the edge. Extremely clever lethal bowling came to be the root cause of the Indian team’s fall.

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