Cape Town, a venue well-known moderately notorious for not being good to batters, particularly in Test cricket showcased the identical as each India and South Africa struggled on Day 1 of the collection decider at Newlands. Not simply the house crew, which received the toss and selected to bat first, however even the Indians struggled regardless that the rating in entrance of them was simply 55. Apart from Virat Kohli, no different Indian batter provided any resistance as they have been too skittled out for 153 earlier than South Africa batted once more and misplaced three wickets and are nonetheless 36 runs behind.
The unluckiest of all of them was Tristan Stubbs, who on his Test debut, encountered such a tough pitch. An in any other case harmful batter in the center order, Stubbs had to modify his approach and enjoying fashion however the uneven floor on the Newlands did not give him time to settle and he ended up getting out for single-digit scores in each innings. Stubbs returned scores of three and 1 on his debut and would love to neglect that.
Stubbs by getting out twice on the identical day on his Test debut, turned only the second batter in history of the longest format. In 1896, Harry Butt of England achieved this unwanted feat towards South Africa in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha) after he got here out to bat in the second innings as an evening watchman and received out even then. It was his first day as a Test cricketer, related to Stubbs.
Despite their very own collapse, India are nonetheless forward in the sport with 36 runs in hand and having taken three South African wickets in the second innings. The recreation is probably going to finish on the second day and even when the hosts handle to add 120-140 runs, the guests will fancy chasing down a goal of 75-100.
