VIDEO | Ambati Rayudu’s sudden ambitious run leaves Vijay Shankar furious after ridiculous dismissal
Ambati Rayudu got some runs under his belt today and was one of the reasons for India’s resurgence from a precarious position. However, he may get a dressing down from the team management after his severe lack of communication dismissed Vijay Shankar and the latter was rightfully gutted by that.
If you look at the first 75 balls that Rayudu had faced today, it was one of struggle and the fight to prove himself than playing according to the situation. Sure enough, he rebuilt the innings in the company of Shankar, but he was scratchy from the beginning and got a couple of lives too. If that was not enough to slowly getting into the groove, he did a major mess-up which cost India big-time.
In the 32nd over of India’s innings, Shankar punched a back of a length delivery from Colin Munro to wide of short mid-wicket and immediately took off for a single, perhaps with the anticipation that it would go past James Neesham who would take some time to reach the ball from mid-wicket. All this while, Rayudu had his eyes fixed on the ball and even signalled Shankar not to run. The Tamil Nadu batsman dutifully obliged his senior partner and stopped mid-way, keeping an eye fixed on the ball.
However, all of a sudden, Rayudu decided to go for the single and didn’t even make a call. It was almost impossible for Shankar to reach the non-striker’s end within such a short span of time as Neesham threw the ball to Munro. It missed the stumps by a whisker, but the bowler made an underarm throw at the stumps to send the batsman back to the pavilion.
The miscommunication left Shankar, who was hoping to get his first ODI half-century, gutted as he smashed his bat onto the pad before walking off. He had good reasons to be upset about Rayudu’s call as it was the first time that he got a chance to bat in ODI cricket and was
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