Matthew Britzke’s brilliant performance (Photo-PTI)
Matthew Breetzke, After the defeat in Ranchi, South Africa made a strong counterattack in Raipur. This team achieved the target of 359 runs four balls early. Aiden Markram scored a brilliant century in South Africa’s victory, but along with this, Matthew Britzke also played an innings which played an important role in South Africa’s victory. Britzke scored 68 runs in 64 balls in that match. In Ranchi ODI also, this player had played an inning of 72 runs in 80 balls. The question is how Britzke, who came to India for the first time, is playing the Indian bowling so easily. Britzky himself explained the reason for this before the Visakhapatnam ODI.
Britzke said – India’s pitch is excellent
During the press conference in Visakhapatnam, Bretzke said that he is enjoying batting in India. He said, ,I am enjoying batting a lot, don’t know about the bowlers. I have come back from playing in Pakistan but the pitch there was not batting friendly. The situation here is quite different from Pakistan., Britzke further said that dew is also a big reason. South Africa has chased in both the matches and the dew that fell at night has made bowling difficult, while the ball comes easily to the bat.
Confidence comes from lower order
Britzke further said that he also gets a lot of confidence from the lower order. According to him, due to the good and powerful batting of Marco Jansen and Corbin Bosch, the top 4 batsmen of South Africa are able to play freely. Let us tell you that Britzke has scored 682 runs in 11 ODI matches only. His ODI average is 68.2 and he has scored 6 half-centuries and one century. If Team India wants to win the ODI series, then this batsman will have to be dismissed soon, otherwise, like in Tests, we may get bad results in ODIs too.