Will Arshdeep Singh be able to do this feat again in front of Salt?Image Credit source: Getty Images
Team India has suffered only defeats on the England tour. Now if the team is losing continuously then obviously the performance of most of the players will be poor. Only one or two players have been able to leave some mark, including left arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh. Especially the manner in which he has started the innings has been very important. Now in the fifth T20 match also, he has a chance to make such a start from which he can complete a hat-trick. Hat-trick, first maiden over.
Already lost the five-match T20 series team india For now it is only a question of credibility. The fifth and last match of the series will be played in Southampton on Saturday, July 11, in which Team India will fight for its honour. This is the last chance for Team India to win in this match and if it has to be successful in this, then every player will have to put in full effort and this responsibility in bowling will be on Arshdeep.
Arshdeep will bowl maiden over for the third consecutive time?
No Indian bowler has performed amazingly in this series. Arshdeep has also not got much success but compared to other bowlers he has created some better chances. Especially in the last two matches, the way he started the innings was most special and by repeating the same rhythm in the third match, he can achieve a special achievement.
In fact, in the third and fourth T20 matches, Arshdeep bowled the first overs in England’s innings and both of them were maidens. That is, in the third and fourth T20 matches, England’s batsmen could not score any runs with the bat in the first innings, nor could they score any runs from wides or no-balls. If Arshdeep does this in the third match also, he will become the first bowler to maiden the first over in three consecutive T20 Internationals.
Big challenge before Salt
But while Arshdeep has a chance to make this special record, England opener Phil Salt has the challenge of avoiding the unwanted record. In fact, in the last two matches, the batsman who bowled the first over maiden was Phil Salt. In both the matches, he could not score a single run in the first over of Arshdeep Singh. In the last match, England did get 4 runs but they came from leg bye, which does not go to the bowler’s account. Whereas in the third T20, all 6 balls remained blank. In such a situation, the challenge for Salt will be that he does not become the first batsman to play 3 maidens consecutively.
