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Temba Bavuma at the Toss
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Temba Bavuma at the Toss
Although India have lost their first three wickets very early, South Africa too didn’t have a better of luck for a long time regarding the toss. The toss plays a major role in each and every game but South Africa certainly failed to taste the flavour of winning the toss despite captain Faf du Plessis’s master stroke, who brought in Temba Bavuma at the toss to turn the table, but his effort went in vain.
After having lost nine tosses in a row, South Africa captain Faf du Plessis earlier gave a hint ahead of the third test, that he might bring in someone else to do the needful and hopes to change their luck as well. Recently, Australia Women?s captain Meg Lanning too had brought in the wicket-keeper batter Alyssa Healy as her toss substitute and Healy turned the table for Australia.
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Temba Bavuma ?REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
After that, Faf du Plessis also decided to try the same way and called in Temba Bavuma to do the Toss at Ranchi. Bavuma called for the tail at the Toss but it was “heads”. On the other hand, India captain Virat Kohli, who eventually won the toss, burst into laughter with this and chose to bat first as usual.
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Here is how Twitterati reacted on the Toss incident:
Ye sahi hai…tails is the call by Bavuma. Tails it is and India wins the toss. India bats first 😂 https://t.co/vbmZ9yL1w3
— Ainish Dave (@ainishd) October 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/Ahmadbilal111/status/1185407386598674433?s=20
Amidst all that chaos at the toss, the most hilarious was Karthik nearly shouting Temba won the toss before Virat Kohli showing up in front of his face made him swallow his words.#INDvSA https://t.co/9p7cpmdE4L
— Rohit Sankar (@imRohit_SN) October 19, 2019
SA loss 10th toss consective.#ind vs sa
— Sahil rumaan (@RumaanSahil) October 19, 2019
In a quest of not losing straight 10th toss in Asia, Faf Du Plesis walked in with a proxy captain Temba Bavuma along side him at the toss who is also their vice captain as well. But as they say, when your fate has been decided already there is nothing much you can do about it.
— Pavan Bilapatte (@PavanBilapatte) October 19, 2019
That’s interesting !!
Bavuma coming to toss as a proxy captain along with skipper Faf to bring luck !Virat still wins the toss n bats first
5 changes for South Africa !!
India 2-0 ahead in 3 test series but it’s not a dead rubber with world test championship on #INDvSA https://t.co/OoWeDbK1Ab
— CA Amit Arora (@amiamigood) October 19, 2019
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Proteas need to hire someone who can guide them in toss. Can't believe we can't win single toss in away matches
— Jaganath (@MattersTalent) October 19, 2019
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Can sense the horror in his words, the gulp, when he realised Temba hadn't actually won the toss.
— Suneer (@suneerchowdhary) October 19, 2019
