Indian skipper Virat Kohli struck a scorching half-century as India reached 183 for the loss of five wickets on day two of the second Test against South Africa at the SuperSport Park. India begin day three trailing by 152 runs and will look to get closer to South Africa’s first innings total. We will provide you all the updates from match here.
Pandya run out
Disaster this for India. Poor and lazy running by Pandya. Early breakthrough for South Africa. There was never a run, Kohli rightly sent Pandya back. But he was lazy to get back quickly and has to pay the price.
Ton for Kohli
Virat Kohli has scored his 21st century in Test format. What an innings by Kohli, he has delivered under pressure. He becomes second captain after Sachin Tendulkar from the subcontinent to score a Test hundred in South Africa.
Build-up: In reply to South Africa’s first innings score of 335, India lost opener KL Rahul for mere 10 runs off Morne Morkel’s delivery. Cheteshwar Pujara also departed early as he was run out by the debutant Lungi Ngidi on the duck.
Opener Murali Vijay and Kohli then put on a 79 stand for the third wicket to make India’s cross the 100 mark. Vijay missed his half-century by just four runs as he was caught behind the stumps by Quinton de Kock on Keshav Maharaj’s delivery.
Rohit Sharma (10) could not stay on the crease for long as he was caught leg before the wicket by Kagiso Rabada. Parthiv Patel also could not add much to his score as he went back to pavilion scoring 19 runs.
Meanwhile, Kohli scored his 17th fifty and was batting on 85 with Hardik Pandya (11) at close of play on day two.
Maharaj, Morkel, Rabbada and Ngidi took one wicket each for proteas.
Earlier, the hosts were bowled out for 335 in their first innings on Day 2. Resuming their innings at 269 for six wickets, the home team was bowled out just before lunch, with Ravichandran Ashwin claiming four wickets for 113 runs.
Faf du Plessis (63) spearheaded the South African attack today, helping his team cross the 300 mark. Ishant Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin scalped three wickets, while Mohammed Shami claimed one.(ANI)