Temba Bavuma’s problems in the Twenty20 format continued, as the South African captain was once again removed for a poor score during the Twenty20 World Cup 2022 Super 12 phase match against Bangladesh.
Bavuma was only able to add two runs to the score after facing six balls after he won the toss and elected to bat first. Taskin Ahmed‘s magnificent delivery ended his innings and ended Bavuma’s chances of scoring.
The right-handed batter gave the ball a nudge in the direction of the wicketkeeper, which resulted in a caught-behind dismissal, and he was taken out of the game early.
The last encounter between South Africa and Zimbabwe was cut short due to rain, and Quinton de Kock’s impressive batting performance was the highlight of the game. South Africa only batted for three overs.
It cast a shade on the difficulties that Bavuma was experiencing, and unquestionably, it is anticipated that it will be a talking topic among the management.
In the last Twenty20 Internationals played against India, Bavuma seemed to be in full disarray, and his strike rate has not helped his situation either.
Also, even though Reeza Hendricks has been in the best form of his life with five half-centuries in his past six innings, he has been sacrificed on the bench because of Bavuma’s leadership abilities.
Ahead of the competition, the first-ever edition of the SA20 auction occurred, but no one was interested in purchasing the Proteas skipper who leads the national team. The fans on Twitter expressed their dissatisfaction with Bavuma getting out so quickly and criticised the selectors for naming him, captain.
South Africa Playing XI: Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Rilee Rossouw, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Wayne Parnell, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi
Bangladesh Playing XI: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan (c), Afif Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nurul Hasan (wk), Mosaddek Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Mustafizur Rahman
Twitter Reacts:
This explains that Reservation is a sin and it makes a country worse
— Em!N€nt $oC!@li$t (@NosaneEmi) October 27, 2022
Rohit Sharma of Africa
— A l V Y (@WoniWroos) October 27, 2022
People with reservation in India crying over reserved quota player Bavuma in comments is biggest irony
— Cric Talks (@AcricBD) October 27, 2022
Biggest fraud in history of South Africa cricket
— Prasun jha (@Prasunj52754874) October 27, 2022
Hamare to 2 Bavuma hai 😭
— LSG 🏏 (@PeterParker7194) October 27, 2022
Man got into cricket just to not let my man Kohli win a test series in SA
— Shrish🍸 (@Whrishti) October 27, 2022
Rohit Sharma of South Africa
— Halsey🇫🇮 #GlazersOut🔰 (@meandmyself017) October 27, 2022
Bavuma is a tension and liability for the team: Ravi Shastri on air.
And I agree.
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) October 27, 2022
T20 🐐 🥹
— Kriti Singh💫 (@kritiitweets) October 27, 2022
Every team getting advantage playing with 11 players other than SA who is playing with 10 players.
— Sumanth (@Sumanthreddy984) October 27, 2022
