{"id":3855,"date":"2022-06-10T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=227792"},"modified":"2022-06-10T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:17:33","slug":"ind-v-sa-t20i-he-should-have-taken-a-single-in-that-final-over-ashish-nehra-opines-on-hardik-pandya-denying-to-allow-dinesh-karthik-a-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-v-sa-t20i-he-should-have-taken-a-single-in-that-final-over-ashish-nehra-opines-on-hardik-pandya-denying-to-allow-dinesh-karthik-a-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"IND v SA T20I: \u201cHe should have taken a single in that final over\u201d \u2013 Ashish Nehra opines on Hardik Pandya denying to allow Dinesh Karthik a strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the absence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Virat+Kohli\">Virat Kohli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rohit+Sharma+\">Rohit Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Jasprit+Bumrah+\">Jasprit Bumrah<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Kl+rahul\">KL Rahul<\/a>, India chose a formidable playing XI for the series opener, led by captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rishabh+Pant+\">Rishabh Pant<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ishan+Kishan\">Ishan Kishan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ruturaj+gaikwad\">Ruturaj Gaikwad<\/a> got India off to a great start with a 57-run partnership for the first wicket, before Pant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Shreyas+Iyer+\">Shreyas Iyer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya+\">Hardik Pandya<\/a> all contributed to India\u2019s 211-run total.<\/p>\n<p>During the 20th over of the first T20I match at Arun Jaitley stadium on Thursday, facing Anrich Nortje, Hardik Pandya steered a full-length delivery from Nortje to deep mid-wicket on the fifth ball. A single was readily available, but Hardik declined, leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Dinesh+Karthik+\">Dinesh Karthik<\/a> on the other end looking unhappy. The incident quickly became a hot topic on social media, with followers criticising Hardik for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should have taken a single in that final over. Dinesh Karthik was at the other end, it wasn\u2019t me.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ashish+Nehra+\">Ashish Nehra<\/a>\u00a0, Gujarat Titans\u2019 coach commented humorously on Cricbuzz.<\/p>\n<p>Pandya, who is 28 years old, struck two runs on the final ball of the innings to bring India\u2019s total to 211.<\/p>\n<p>On the other end, it was Karthik, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL+2022\">Indian Premier League 2022<\/a> finisher with the highest strike rate. Indians fans were quick to criticise Pandya on social media for his behaviour in the last over. Because he was playing for India almost three years later, many people wanted to see the wicketkeeper finish the game yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>However, South Africa chased down the target with five balls remaining, with to David Miller\u2019s magnificent unbeaten 64 (off 31 balls) and Rassie van der Dussen\u2019s 75* (off 46 balls).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Hardik Pandya and Dinesh Karthik made their international comeback in the first T20I of the five-match series against South Africa in Delhi on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[495,585,143,3334,1587],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ashish-nehra","tag-dinesh-karthik","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-ind-v-sa-t20i","tag-t20i-series"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}