South African seamers gave their all and brought about a collapse of the Indian batting order to 174 all out in their second innings in the afternoon session of the fourth day of the first Test of the series.
Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen were at the top of their games and picked up four wickets each to derail India’s attempt to bat them out of the game. Skipper Virat Kohli edged to the keeper Quinton de Kock on the very first ball after the lunch interval off the bowling of Jansen while Cheteshwar Pujara was unlucky to get out down the leg side on a leg-side half volley off Lungi Ngidi.
Ajinkya Rahane batted in tremendous touch before failing to control an aerial pull shot of Rabada and getting out for a mere 20.
Rishabh Pant batted with usual belligerence and took India closer to the 300-run lead mark. However, he too paid the price of attempting to score quickly while Proteas pacers were attacking Indian bowlers with short of length deliveries on the surface providing a lot of variable bounce.
South Africa have to chase 305 runs to win the first Test of the three-match long series and there are almost 50 overs left to be bowled on the fourth day of the Test.