South Africa dominated the opening day of the primary Test match towards India at Centurion’s SuperSport Park on Tuesday, December 36. Kagiso Rabada‘s five wickets put India in hassle however an unbeaten fifty from KL Rahul balanced the rain-hit Day 1 play of the Boxing Day Test.
Temba Bavuma gained the essential toss at a pace-friendly floor and handed Test debuts to David Bedingham and Nandre Burger. India began with 4 pacers and one spinner with Prasidh Krishna making his red-ball cricket debut immediately.
As anticipated, South African pacers dominated the beginning with three early wickets of the Indian top-order. Rabada gave a breakthrough with captain Rohit Sharma‘s wicket in the fifth over after which debutant Burger eliminated kids Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
India made a powerful comeback with Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer including 68 runs for the fourth wicket. But Rabada dominated after lunch with 4 extra wickets and put the Proteas in a dominant place to bowl out India’s innings on Day 1.
But KL Rahul’s cussed fightback with 70* off 105 balls and worthwhile 24 runs from Shardul Thakur helped India rating a complete of 208/8 in 59 overs. Rain delayed the beginning of the sport and likewise compelled for early stumps at SuperSport Park.
Meanwhile, Rabada took five for 44 whereas Burger claimed two for 50. Rabada additionally accomplished 500 wickets in worldwide cricket to say an enormous achievement on Tuesday.
South Africa Playing XI: Dean Elgar, Aiden Markram, Tony de Zorzi, Temba Bavuma (c), Keegan Petersen, David Bedingham, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada, Nandre Burger
India Playing XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna
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