Legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara has made a mockery of South Africa slow batting innings at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
South Africa in four sessions scored 135 runs in 136 runs. Captain Hashim Amla played the slowest innings in the history by balls. In 244 balls, Amla scored 25 while AB de Villiers played 294 balls to score innings’s best score 43.
Lara took to twitter to take a dig at South Africa’s batting strategy to draw the Test. However, they lost the match by 337 runs and series 3-0.
South Africa’ batsmen even blocking the worst ball. AB de Villiers who was his body for a couple of times did not give up and playing with pain.
This kind of approach is rare in Test in modern day cricket. In the day’s of T20 influenced cricket teams approached attacking batting approach and per overrun rate sometimes more than four.
Indian spinner Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin breaks through South Africa defense. Ashwin took a fifer while Umesh Yadav took three wickets.
Ravindra Jadeja grabbed the wicket of Hasim Amla and Faf du Plessis while Ravichandran Ashwin has taken the wicket of JP Duminy that opened the floodgate of South Africa’s long tails. India cleans up South Africa’s last four wickets for 7 runs.
Lara’s tweet
I have an issue with this part of test cricket #IndvsSA playing at night or not if this is the approach to save a match why would I attend.
— Brian Lara (@BrianLara) December 7, 2015
No! Change d rules where all games hv a result and this is not an option. I would applaud if they save it #knowthat https://t.co/kS1OgduhDw
— Brian Lara (@BrianLara) December 7, 2015
And don’t get me wrong my opinion is from a spectator point of view not from a player perspective. #goodluckSA
— Brian Lara (@BrianLara) December 7, 2015
I look back now with astonishment a young West Indies team battered and bruised chased down 418 to beat the mighty Australians. #proud
— Brian Lara (@BrianLara) December 7, 2015