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Lungi Ngidi has a new ball, Rohit Sharma is holding a bat. Shall we?
“Morning Rob, morning all,” writes Em Jackson. “My two rupees (or rand): all India and RSA will want to do is walk away from this game with no back spasms for De Kock, no broken fingers for Kohli and broken toes for Bumrah & Rabada.
“No one wants to see injuries fell the two best sides so far in a dead rubber after all (but a crisis could well bring opportunity for someone). Mind you, Dharamshala aside, is there any greater ground to play a dead rubber than Eden Gardens, Kolkata? Admittedly, that may well be my Knight Riders bias showing there a little.”
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