Virat Kohli led Team India were dismantled by South Africa by 72 runs in the first Test at Cape Town, but the debutent Jasprit Bumrah on Thursday said the morale is still high. South Africa outplayed India inside four days in the opening Test in Cape Town to claim a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
“Confidence is not dented after one match. If it happens, then you don’t deserve to play. Learn from the mistake you made and go forward. There is not a single cricketer who has not made a mistake,” asserted Bumrah, who took four wickets in the match.
On his first experience with white ball, he said he learned lot of new things.
“It was a first good Test and a good learning experience for me because I have never played over here in South Africa. So I had a lot of things to learn from it. Now it is time to move forward and focus on the second Test,” Bumrah said.
“We realized what mistakes we made in the first innings, so (on day four) we were trying to create pressure from both ends and focus on our lengths which were wrong in the first innings” he added.
The second test to start on Saturday.
