Arshdeep’s 7 wide ball over became a headache for India, Gautam Gambhir became red with anger in the dugout.

By Samira Vishwas On Dec 12, 2025

Arshdeep Singh had a very bad day in the second T20 being played against South Africa in Mullanpur. By bowling 7 wides in an over, he not only increased the pressure on the team, but Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir was also seen fuming with anger. This over was completed in 13 balls and South Africa got a big advantage.

Arshdeep Singh’s performance became the topic of discussion in the second T20 being played between India and South Africa at Maharaja Yadvendra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur on Thursday, 11 December. In the 11th over of South Africa’s innings, Arshdeep bowled an over which surprised everyone. He bowled 7 wide balls in a single over. Six wide outside off stump and one on the leg-side.

All this happened at a time when Quinton de Kock was setting up and creating havoc on the field. Arshdeep was trying to bowl wide yorkers, but kept missing his line again and again. The result was that the over was not made of 6 balls but of 13 balls. A total of 18 runs were scored in this over, which increased a lot of pressure on the Indian team.

Indian team head coach Gautam Gambhir also appeared very angry in the dugout. The camera went to his reaction several times, where he was clearly unhappy with Arshdeep’s line-length. Arshdeep gave away 54 runs in a total of 4 overs in this match, which was a day to forget for him.

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Not only this, with this Arshdeep Singh has now registered in his name the shameful record of bowling the most number of balls in an over in T20 cricket for India. Not only this, he has also become the bowler to bowl the longest over in T20 International as a player from a full member country. In this shameful record list, he has equaled Afghanistan’s Naveen Ul Haq, who had bowled a 13-ball over against Zimbabwe in the year 2024.

Talking about the match, South Africa batted first and scored a huge score of 213 runs. Quinton de Kock played a explosive inning of 90 runs in 46 balls. Apart from them, Donovan Ferreira (30 runs, 16 balls) and David Miller (20 runs, 12 balls) also batted brilliantly and put the team in a strong position.

For India, Varun Chakraborty took 2 wickets in this innings while Akshar Patel got 1 wicket.