India vs South Africa 2015, 3rd T20I at Eden Gardens

Miller also made mention of the fact that the Proteas can take confidence from their performance in India in the shortest format with the World T20 being held in the same country next year. “I reckon it is the best bowling performance we have had as a T20 team”.

Referring to a similar incident in the past, he said, ” When we played a match in Vizag and won it, a few bottles started against us with the serious intent and the latter ones are just thrown out of fun.

“Spinners will have a major role to play in the T20 World Cup, the pitches here are slow and they will be successful. We wanted to challenge their fielders and that is what you call playing positive cricket”.

South African batsmen Farhaan Behardien, right, Jean-Paul Duminy, left and Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, center, walk back as their second Twenty20 cricket match is disrupted after spectators threw bottles in Cuttack, India, Monday, October 5, 2015.

“I would go down to one game really in Cuttack where we could have played much better but we just did not show up. Such is the quality of this team that they (selectors) have stuck to the players who they believe can win games”, he stated.

Kohli was dismissed without facing a ball, while Rohit followed next as India failed to recover to record their second lowest T20I score. “It is very important that I keep myself a bit free, and go and play my shots”.

“Look, it’s an easy job to be a captain when your bowlers perform like that”, de Plessis said. “If you see the IPL and other tournaments here, spinners have always picked up wickets and have been able to put the brakes on the scoring”, he said. The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) will be playing a three-minute documentary on the former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya before the start of the match.

Kolkata: As much as Eden Gardens belongs to VVS Laxman for his epic 281 against Australia in that historic Test, it is also Harbhajan Singh’s spiritual home for the 13 wickets that he took in that particular match including a hat-trick. “I have been practicing it and that’s all, it feels nice and at the time it was a big wicket, little moments like that is what we need as a team in the One-Dayers and the Test series too”.

“As supposed to what is going to happen tomorrow, I am not very sure”.