Updated On: 24 February, 2026 08:40 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Suryakumar and Tilak Varma are both playing slightly conservatively, and what happens is that people like Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, and Rinku Singh are not tapped into resources as much

Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Harbhajan Singh and Mohammad Kaif

Having seen how Brevis and Miller built their partnership, that was the approach needed from the Indian batters. The Indian batters did not do that. They came out with overconfidence, threw their bat at everything and lost wickets. South Africa clearly outsmarted India and it was a well-deserved win for them.