IND vs SA: Any conditions that come your way, teams must learn to adapt, says Bharat Arun
India will now take on South Africa in the second Test of the series in Pune from October 10.
Days before the second Test match against South Africa, India's bowling coach Bharat Arun on Tuesday claimed that a team needs to adapt according to the wicket if they really want to become number one in the game.
"To be a good number one team in the world, any conditions that come your way, you got to accept and say these are home conditions," Arun told reporters."If you want to be the number team in the world, you got to look at the wickets and adapt your bowling instantaneously to be successful," he added.On the last day of the first Test in Vizag, India pacer Mohammad Shami picked up five wickets to his name and helped his side register a healthy victory before the tea interval."It was a purely magnificent spell by Shami that put us back in the game. Otherwise, I think given the conditions it would have been very very difficult," said Arun.The Proteas managed to score 431 runs in the first innings on their chase to India's 502 runs. Dean Elgar and Quinton de Kock both smashed individual tons. But, in the second innings, Indian bowlers bundled out the visitors for 191 runs.
"I thought South Africans batted exceptionally well in the first, but in the second innings they were little hesitant to Shami's kind of bowling," said Arun.India will now take on South Africa in the second Test of the series in Pune from October 10.