Indian Captain Rohit Sharma again failed to score during the second innings of the first IND vs SA Test match. Rohit was castled for a duck by South African pacer Kagiso Rabada. South Africa finished their first innings with 408 runs and leads by 163 runs.
The Indian team needed something special from Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal, however, Kagiso Rabada proved to be too much for Rohit as he failed to pick the length of the ball and his furniture was disturbed by an absolute beauty from Rabada. .
The Indian team had only five runs on the board and Rohit’s departure could now make things difficult for the other Indian batsmen.
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The Indian team could not overcome the wicket of Rohit Sharma as the other opener Yashasvi Jaiswal fell to Nandre Burger by 5 runs. The Indian team now has a daunting task ahead as they first need to build their innings and then overcome the huge lead established by the South African batsmen.
Prior to this, South Africa’s first innings concluded with 408 runs, in which opener Dean Elgar emerged as the leading run-scorer and scored 185 runs. Apart from Elgar, Marco Jansen was unbeaten on 84 runs, while David Bedingham played 56 innings.
Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah finished the innings with a four-wicket haul and gave away 69 runs in 26.4 overs. Mohammed Siraj got two fers, while Prasidh Krishna, Shardul Thakur and Ravichandran Ashwin had to settle for 1 wicket each.
Prasidh Krishna was the weakest link in the Indian bowling performance as he failed to leave any impact on debut. Krishna, who was brought in to take the place of Mohammed Shami, did not perform up to par and gave away runs close to 5 runs an over.
The South African batsmen also showed a different batting performance and played many attacking shots throughout their innings and did not allow the Indian bowlers to create pressure.
The Indian team’s batsmen played a lot of defensive shots during their first innings, which was the main reason behind their failure in batting. It was KL Rahul who showed the right way of batting on the Centurion pitch and now the Indian team will bat with the same intent in the second innings.
The Indian team has never won a Test series in South Africa and has been touring the country for the last 31 years. The team has shown good performance in the previous tours, but has only been able to win 2 games out of six games.
Now, when the Indian team has one of the best bowling attacks in the world, it also has a chance to win its first Test series on South African soil against an inexperienced South African team. The Indian team already won the ODI series 2-1, while the T20I series ended 1-1.
