South African bowlers produced a stellar begin in their first Test match against India at Centurion’s SuperSport Park on Tuesday. Indian batters struggled against the tempo with top-three gamers strolling again to the pavilion in simply 11.1 overs to a poor begin to an important Boxing Day conflict.
Captain Rohit Sharma and teen Yashasvi Jaiswal opened for India and added 13 runs for the primary wickets. Returning Kagiso Rabada stunned Rohit with a pitched-up supply in the fifth over the place the batter discovered a high-quality leg whereas trying an enormous shot.
Five overs later, debutant left-arm medium pacer Nandre Burger shocked India with Yashasvi Jaiswal’s wicket. Burger additional made an impression with Shubman Gill‘s wicket in the twelfth over with the ball whiskering away from the batter’s glove to the wicketkeeper’s hand.Â
The Proteas pacers saved Indian batters on the toe with each Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer surviving dropped catches inside the primary 14 overs at SuperSport Park with 40 runs on the scoreboard.
Watch India wickets:
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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