Wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi has countered suggestion that the bowlers will be pressurised by the small dimensions of the boundaries during the Proteas’ third and final T20I agaisnt India at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.

The Bengaluru venue is among the smallest across in India. It was Shamsi’s home ground during a stint with the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League in 2016.

‘I feel it puts all the more pressure on the batsman to go out there and do what people want to see. So, as bowlers, we are just there to spoil the party and make sure that we execute our plans well,’ India Today quoted Shamsi as saying.

‘Chinnaswamy is a small stadium and I mean it’s a T20I series, so people obviously are coming there to see batsmen hit fours and sixes. They are not there to see you bowl a maiden over and that’s what it’s all about.’

Shamsi, who has played two Tests, 17 ODIs and 15 T20Is,  is the senior spinner in the Proteas squad for this series. Leg-spinner Imran Tahir was not selected, while left-arm slow bowlers Bjorn Fortuin and George Linde are brand new to international cricket.

India lead the three-match series 1-0. The first match in Dharamsala was washed out without a ball bowled. The tourists lost the second in the wake of opposition captain Virat Kohli’s commanding half-century.

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