South Africa will be playing their match at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. They will be up against New Zealand in the contest. Considering New Zealand's power-packed opening duo, the powerplay will be a crucial phase in their batting innings, and South Africa would expect something from their lanky pacemen, Marco Jansen and Lungi Ngidi.
When a young Marco Jansen bowled for the first time at the Eden Gardens, things got really bad. Jansen went from being the CWC 2023's top powerplay bowler to falling apart against the home side. The Indian team, led by captain Rohit Sharma targetted and attacked him, taking him for 94 runs in his 9.4 overs. He bowled a total of 7 wides and a no-ball in that game.
Not until South Africa's arrival at the same Eden Gardens for the first Test against India in 2025 could Jansen ever restore the belief in himself. The attributes he learned in Kolkata helped him to lead South Africa to one of the most iconic victories in their history, as he picked 6/48 in the first innings of the next game at Guwahati.
Marco Jansen makes a massive revelation on using Jasprit Bumrah's hack to dismiss Indian batters
As Marco Jansen speaks about what made him a different player after that Kolkata Test, he reveals having taken a massive learning after having witnessed Jasprit Bumrah's bowling. He observed the legendary Indian pacer closely after he picked a five-wicket haul.
He then continued that having tried and implemented the same, he found that the ball started moving off the wicket, and the same sharp, quick movement helped him get two wickets quickly later in the game.
In this T20 World Cup, Marco Jansen has brought a new dish to serve for South Africa. He has been South Africa's second leading wicket taker and the fifth overall. A special addition to his skill set coming into this World Cup is his knuckleball, which he recreated as the 'sort of palm ball,' since it is held for a longer time in the hand.
"I always felt like I had to add a different ball to my arsenal. I always had the offcutter and I tried bowling the legcutter, but with my action it doesn't work," he says. "So I tried the knuckleball, and it came out really well, but I felt like the batters could pick it up," noted Marco Jansen.
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