South Africa is a tempo bowler’s paradise. The bounce and swing on provide usually make travelling groups ditch their conventional plans for a pace-heavy assault in a bid to ace the South African problem. As the Indian group reached Centurion for the primary Test, expectations have been from the administration to area 4 pacers and only one spinner. As followers appeared to trace the follow classes to grasp the bowling composition India will proceed with, many have been left shocked to see the top coach Rahul Dravid bowl.

Ahead of the toss on Day 1 of the primary Test, Dravid tried to bowl medium tempo within the nets, producing never-seen-before scenes. Here’s the video:

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Seeing Dravid bowl even his former India teammate Sanjay Bangar was left shocked.

“Well, he did most of the things that were asked of him from a player point of view – opened the batting, batted at 3,5,6, kept wicket. So this is something that I am surprised with. I have never seen Rahul Dravid do this. But it’s always good because as coaches you do things that you aren’t used to so to see. And there’s nothing wrong with his action; he seems pretty aligned and just has to add a little bit of piece. Otherwise, he looks pretty alright,” he stated in a chat on Star Sports.

Seeing Dravid take up bowling within the follow, even Kohli rolled his arm and tried bowling a number of medium-pace deliveries. For Kohli, it wasn’t one thing new, as he has bowled within the nets on a number of events. In truth, Kohli even picked up a wicket within the ODI World Cup 2023

For the unversed, Dravid hasn’t simply stored wickets for India but in addition bowled sometimes in worldwide cricket. In truth, he has a complete of 5 wickets to his identify in worldwide cricket (4 in ODIs and 1 in Test).