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Bumrah, Rabada world’s best right now: Amla

SOUTHAMPTON:Jasprit Bumrah and Kagiso Rabada are the two premier fast bowlers in the world because of their skill level and ability to bowl in any situation, said veteran South Africa opener Hashim Amla.

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Southampton, June 6 

Jasprit Bumrah and Kagiso Rabada are the two premier fast bowlers in the world because of their skill level and ability to bowl in any situation, said veteran South Africa opener Hashim Amla. 

“Bumrah and KG are the two best bowlers in world right now. They have pace, accuracy and can bowl at any stage of the game. Both South Africa and India are fortunate to have them,” Amla said after his team lost to India. Amla has been dismissed a few times by Bumrah, but he said it didn’t play on his mind. “Bumrah is a helluva bowler and that’s what good bowlers do but I don’t think they play on your mind as such as you need to assess the pitch and play accordingly. If you can’t then you watch the game from the change room,” the veteran batsman said.

Amla admitted that South Africa didn’t expect the conditions to be so seamer-friendly in the game against India. “I don’t think anyone anticipated the wicket to be what it was. We expected it to be a bit more high-scoring. That’s why we included an attacking option in left-arm wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi but it turned out to be more seamer-friendly which we hadn’t anticipated,” he said.

Three back-to-back defeats demand introspection in the camp, and that’s what they are trying to do right now. “There is no rocket science answer to this. Obviously, we would now introspect for a day or two as to what went wrong. Once we have done that, we need to go back to the drawing board, reassess and try to execute that in training,” Amla said. — PTI

KP OFFERS ADVICE ON TACKLING BUMRAH, VALID ONLY FOR RIGHT-HANDERS 

Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen has figured out a way to tackle Jasprit Bumrah, albeit only for the right-handed batsmen. Bumrah, who ranks at the top of the ICC rankings, produced a fiery spell of fast bowling to put South Africa on the backfoot with a two-wicket haul in the World Cup on Wednesday. “Quick memo to all right handed batters — get on to off stump against Bumrah and look to hit him from, straight back at the stumps to square leg. Eliminate the off side completely!” Pietersen wrote on his Twitter page. — AFP

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