Batsmen

Elgar was one of three batsmen dismissed twice on the same day as the Newlands pitch became a minefield for batsmen who could never be sure they were properly set.

Indian opener KL Rahul spoke about his own batting through the tournament, why opening batsmen are playing more cautiously and what Indian batsmen can learn from Virat Kohli.

No batsmen managed to go past the 50-run mark, but cameos by late order batsmen enabled the side to go past the 180-run mark, ICC reported.

Nikhil Gangta and Bipul Sharma were the only Himachal batsmen to provide some resistance in a total of 130 but even that was a target too high for the J&K batsmen with eight of them managing only single digit scores.

With both Sarfraz Ahmed and Mickey Arthur calling on the batsmen to step up in South Africa, the pressure was on the senior batsmen to make amends for the New Zealand loss.

After St Lucia Boys Under-19s won the toss and batted first yesterday, their batsmen were kept in check by the St Vincent and the Grenadines Boys Under-19s bowlers.

After the drinks the Maghera batsmen had to take risks and as a result Chris McVitty picked up a wicket courtesy of a sharp catch by Abraham who then effected a smart run out.

And the most amazing part of AfridiтАЩs wizardry lies not just in the speed and the movement he gets, but how consistently he lands in areas that batsmen know he is going to deliver, but still manages to breach their defence.

Chopar, speaking on his YouTube channel, highlighted the batting averages of top-order batsmen.

Few batsmen step out to spinners in the old-fashioned way of Shreyas Iyer.

Four singles and a leg-bye off Jadeja’s third over, forcing the batsmen to expend as much energy as possible.

He is making it look really easy for the batsmen to score runs on this pitch!

His pinpoint left-arm spin bowling unsettled the GT batsmen, leading to critical wickets at key stages of the game.

However, the dismissal of these key batsmen changed the momentum, and the Pride struggled to accelerate their scoring.

In a game where batsmen from both sides struggled against spinners on a fast deteriorating pitch, Desai had the patience and the game to carve out 101 runs in a losing cause.

Leo Johnson was one of three Collingham & Linton batsmen to hit half-centuries in Saturday's crushing of North Leeds.

Sharma, a 21-year-old leg-spinner, bamboozled the RCB batsmen with his variations and picked up three crucial wickets to help KKR register a comprehensive win.

Sheyne Moseley has so far led the way with 65, while Sharmarh Brooks 10 and Keon Harding 3 are the not out batsmen.

Such heady dreams will quickly be quashed if there’s a return of the fragility displayed by the Black Caps batsmen earlier this series.

Such methods don’t work in ODIs because batsmen have time to gauge a bowler and then line him up.