The Indian cricket team is not having a great outing with the bat in the first IND vs SA test match. After the early exit of Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill was the next victim as Marco Jansen cleaned him out for 26 runs. Team India is in deep trouble as they have just added 52 runs on the board and the top three are back in the hut.
Shubman Gill was dismissed for 2 runs in the first innings and played some attacking shots when he came into bat in the second. Gill hit six fours throughout his innings, but on the sixth ball of the 14th over, Gill took an inswinger from Marco Jansen, who bowled full length and then hit the stumps.
Shubman Gill was trying to play a shot through the midwicket region, but the ball created a gap between the bat and the ball through which the ball passed to hit the stumps.
Watch: Shubman Gill’s furniture is disturbed when he plays on the wrong line against Marco Jansen
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The Indian cricket team scored 245 runs in their first innings thanks to a 101-run knock by Indian batsman KL Rahul. Rahul hit a total of 14 fours and four sixes throughout his innings and helped the team reach a fighting total.
Batting in the first innings, South Africa scored 408 runs in their first innings as it was opener Dean Elgar who scored 185 runs. Elgar, who is also playing his final international Test series for South Africa, scored a total of 28 fours throughout his innings.
Apart from Dean Elgar, Marco Jansen scored 84* runs, while David Bedingham also scored 56 runs.
The Indian cricket team is 163 runs behind against South Africa in the second innings and will now have to show a top-notch batting performance.
However, there was a big difference between the batting performance of both the teams as on one hand, the Indian team showed a lot of defensive batting approach during their first innings, while on the other hand, the South African team played a lot of aggressive shots. . and natural play, which became the reason for his success.
Also, they did not allow the Indian pacers to pressure them and did not look like an inexperienced batting team.
India will now have to do something special from here if they want to get back into the match and create a chance to win it. India are 62/3 at Tea on Day 3 and are still 101 runs behind.
India have been touring South Africa for the last 31 years but are yet to win a Test series on South African soil. The Indian team has performed well in the last few tours of South Africa but lost the series 2-1 in their previous two outings.
Now, the visitors have the best chance to end their drought as they have one of the best attacks in the world, which has been the reason behind some of their famous victories abroad.