‘Aggressive’ Abhishek Sharma feels excitement over Samson’s form: Boucher

Former South Africa coach Mark Boucher felt that India opener Abhishek Sharma would be under serious pressure to score some runs. Sharma, who broke into the Indian team with his terrific batting in the Indian Premier League, looked colorless in most of the matches for the national team and was dismissed while attacking in the first 6 overs.

Speaking ahead of the 2nd T20I match in Gqeberha, Boucher said Abhishek Sharma will feel the pressure to score some runs given his opening partner Sanju Samson has played two incredible innings in a row in the T20Is.

“Look, I think he has been selected to play a certain way and if you tell him to bat for the team any other way than that, you would be doing him an injustice. He will feel the excitement, especially with the goals Sanju is scoring.” “If he is also running, he will know that he has to make big runs, other Indian openers will also be knocking on the wickets, so this is his opportunity in this series,” Boucher said about Abhishek Sharma on Jio Cinema.

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That day, Abhishek Sharma was once again sent off early in the match while trying to beat Gerald Coetzee. Abhishek left the game in the second part of the game while trying to increase the tempo to six. Sanju Samson did not do well in the 2nd T20I match as well as he lost his wicket in the first over against Marco Jansen.

At the time of writing, India were 15/3 in 4.2 overs and skipper Suryakumar Yadav was also on the bench. Axar Patel and Tilak Varma were trying to rebuild the Indian batting after the early fall of wickets.