Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s lone wicket during South Africa’s first innings helped Team India to restrict the hosts to six for the loss of one wicket at stumps on Day 1 of the third Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. The hosts currently trail by 181 runs.
The pacer, who was dropped from the last match, removed Aiden Markram early in a shortened final ses♉sion. Earlier, the visitors were bowled out ♏for 187 in their first innings.
When no other batsmen🍌 besides Virat Kohli and Chetꦆeshwar Pujara could cross the 20s, it was Bhuvneshwar Kumar who put up a fight against the lethal pace attack of the Proteas and scored 30 runs amid very tough conditions.
Twitter went berserk in appreciation for Bhuvi as he scored 30 runs and also took a wicket towards the end of the day’s play. If Bhuvi wouldn’t have played a knock of 30 then India might have been reduced to well short of 150.
Here’s how fans reacted on Twitter:
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the all-rounder India𓆉 think Hardik Pandya is.ꦺ
*All conditions applied.
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar's batting average in series is 34.00. Only Virat Kohli averages more (49.00) for India.
May be Virat could have pl💎ayed him as a specialist batsman at Centurion if not as a bowler.— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket)
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Bhuvi is such an honest trier. No fan ꩵfare. No tattoos
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
Give me even one reason why girls shouldn't make babies with Bhuvneshwar Kumar?
— EngiNerd. (@mainbhiengineer)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar Well Played 👍🏻 worth 30.
India :1st Innings 187-10— betvisa69.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Why ca🎃nnot Bhuvneshwar Kumar bat above H༺ardik Pandya in Tests? He surely has brains and a technique to counter a seaming delivery.
— 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗼𝗱𝗵𝗶 (@GautamSodhi1)
BHUVNESHWAR KUMAR SHOULD PLAY EV✱ERY TEST MATCH. Regardle🃏ss of the damn pitch. Period.
— Raunak Kapoor (@RaunakRK)
Pic : Bhuvi entering t🐼he Indian dressing room after Indian innings got over 🔥 Bhuvnes﷽hwar Kumar
— R (@Thomas_SheIby)
For 🌠the record has shown grit in every innings. ♔For Hardik and Parthiv and lot to learn. Put a price on your wicket as said!!
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
