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Sa Vs Ind 1St Test Day 4 Proteas Strike Twice But Kohli Pujara Extend Indias Lead Beyond 200

SA vs IND |1st Test, Day 4: Proteas strike twice but Kohli, Pujara extend India’s lead beyond 200

South Africa managed to pick up two wickets early on the fourth day despite not bowling well according to the nature of the pitch and conditions and sent back both the overnight batsmen KL Rahul and Shardul Thakur.

They also created the opportunity to dismiss Cheteshwar Pujara but Kagiso Rabada split an easy chance at short mid-on and he got a big reprieve. The next man in, Virat Kohli looked good during his stay at the crease and both he and Pujara cashed in on the boundary-scoring opportunity to keep the scoreboard moving.

India have managed to extend their lead to 209 runs by the end of the first session on the penultimate day of the game and Kohli would look to take the attack to the opposition to take his side to a big total.

There are rain forecasts for tomorrow and hence the visitors will be looking to mount a big score for the Proteas to chase. They would hope to press on in the afternoon session for more runs and push Proteas under pressure.

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SA vs IND | 1st Test, Day 4: Ball tracking continues to create confusion in otherwise great contest

Although there have been a fair bit of competition between bat and ball in the ongoing first Test of the series between India and South Africa, the issue of technology in the game has also attracted a fair bit of unwarranted attention from players and watchers of the game. There were numerous instances of confusion and uncertainty about the hawk-eye that charts the path of deliveries and helps the umpire in making decisions and broadcasters in analysing the game and the issue came to the fore on the fourth day of the Test as well after South Africa wasted a review against Shardul Thakur. Shardul left a delivery from Marco Jansen on the final ball of the 10th over in India’s second innings only to be hit on the pads. South Africa opted for review as they believed the ball was to hit the stumps. The ball, however, appeared to be missing the stumps on hawk-eye. The decision was not contentious but subsequent replays of that and following deliveries to KL Rahul showed a bizarre level of bounce on hawk-eye which was not the case in the real-time play. Earlier, on the third day, the Indian team led by Virat Kohli made clear their dissatisfaction for the lack of display of DRS methodology on the big screen at the venue. Earlier on the first day, Mayank Agarwal was given out on DRS when hawk-eye suggested that the ball was to hit the stumps. Former players such as Wasim Jaffer questioned the path of the ball shown by the ball tracking and said that the ball at best could have just hit the stumps leading to upholding of the umpire’s decision which was not out.

BBL 11 | Brisbane Heat score their lowest total; put up just 105 after choosing to bat first

Playing their seventh match of the season, Brisbane Heat were bowled out for just 105 runs in Sydney on Wednesday, 29 December. Up against the Sydney Sixers, Heat chose to bat first on a used SCG track, hoping to make the best out of it. Things went sideways very quickly against the quality of left-right seaming combination of Sean Abbott and Ben Dwarshuis who ran through the batting line up in the first 10 overs, reducing the batting line up to 21/4 inside the powerplay. After swinging early in the first couple of overs, the seamers made full use of the slow track to trap batsmen with cutters bowled into the surface. Sixers were very good with their catching as well. In the first XI for the first time this season Shadab Khan did not return with any wickets, but the pace battery of Abbot, Dwarshuis, Hayden Kerr and veteran Daniel Christian picked 9 wickets between them to wrap Heat up in 19.1 overs.

BBL 11 | Sean Abbot takes 'catch of the summer' to dismiss Chris Lynn

Sydney Sixers were on top at their home game against the Brisbane Heats toppling their top order early on Wednesday, 29 December. The second placed team in the Big Bash League, Sixers, gave Heat absolutely no chance with some wonderful bowling from the pace attack, led by Ben Dwarshius. On a slow Sydney pitch, the batsmen found it difficult to negotiate Dwarshuis’ swing and were reduced to 46/6 by the 11th over. However, the dismissal that got talked about the most on the day was of Chris Lynn. The hard hitter while looking to tee off got out to an absolute stunner from Sean Abbot. While Abbot did take two wickets to play an equally important part in the downfall of the Heat, in Lynn’s case, he was on the business end of grabbing an incredible one handed stunner. Standing at cover, Abbot grabbed a hard backfoot punch from Lymm that was always destined to reach the boundary. He flung himself to his right and picked up an unlikely chance making the commentators go into a frenzy. The box called it the ‘catch of the summer’ and one of the best that they have seen in the BBL 11.

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The Aces defeated the grappling Volts in a one-sided match on December 29, 2021, at John Davies Oval in Queenstown. With 17 balls to spare, they won the match by eight wickets.