Who Said What? What did Suryakumar Yadav & Arshdeep Singh say after IND vs SA, 3rd T20I?

India bagged a seven-wicket win over South Africa in the third T20I of the ongoing series against South Africa in Dharamsala.

In the third T20I, South Africa came out to bat first after losing the toss. Top-order batter and captain Aiden Markram was the top scorer with 61 runs in 46 balls as South Africa could post only 117 runs in 20 overs. 

Indian bowlers Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, and Kuldeep Yadav scalped two wickets apiece. In response, India sealed the deal in 15.5 overs with seven wickets in hand. Abhishek Sharma was the star batter with 35 runs in 18 balls, picking up three fours and as many sixes. 

On that note, let’s take a look at who said what after IND vs SA, 3rd T20I.

Player of the Match, Arshdeep Singh

When I walked onto the ground, everyone was telling me this is also your home ground. So the first thing I told them was, no, this is not my home ground - so that felt better. And after that, just sticking to the basics, doing the basics right, and trusting my skill set. When you play at this level, there are some days when you won’t execute the things you want to do. 

It was one off day (last game), so it feels nice to do this (bowl well in this game). (On what he did right today) Nothing changed. I just pitched the ball in the right areas and tried to get as much help from the wicket. There was some help in the wicket, the conditions were cold as well, so there was enough swing and seam. I just tried to keep it simple, hit the right areas, and got the reward. 

Not really (about the discussion on the Reeza Hendricks review). It was Surya bhai who wanted to get some suspense in there. The moment it hit the pad, I knew it was out. When I got the approval from Jitesh as well, we knew we were going for the review. He just wanted to wait, chat for a bit, and then take it. (On the Brevis review) As a bowler, you want to take every review possible (laughs). I felt it hit the pad twice, so that was the confusion. Next time, I’ll take care of that (smiles).

Indian captain, Suryakumar Yadav

I think this sport teaches you a lot of things. How you come back into the series is more important. And we did the same thing, we wanted to go back to basics, do the same things we were doing in Cuttack, and the results were on our side. See, there was a lot of learning from the game we played in Chandigarh. 

The bowlers sat together, we had a good team meeting as well. We came for practice sessions and tried to do the same things we did in Cuttack. We went back to basics. We didn’t try to do a lot of different things, but I think basics were very important at that time. 

(On his form) The thing is, I’ve been batting beautifully in the nets. I’m trying everything that’s in my control. And when the game comes, when the runs have to come, they’ll definitely come. But yes, I’m looking for runs, not out of form, but definitely out of runs. 

I think we’ll enjoy it tonight. We’ll enjoy the win tonight. We’ll sit down tomorrow when we reach Lucknow and then see what happened in this game and talk about that.

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