Team India is three wickets away while South Africa are 132 runs away from winning the first Test of the series and taking a 1-0 lead in the three-match long series.
The hosts started the fifth and final day of the game at 94/4 and scored at a brisk pace to extend their score to 182 runs at the lunch interval on the final day. However, Indian pacers bowled enough wicket-taking deliveries to eliminate the prized wicket of Dean Elgar to start a mini-collapse in the first session.
Quinton de Kock was looking to attack the Indian bowlers but Mohammad Siraj was all over him with his variation off the pitch. He failed in multiple attempts of square cuts but finally, Siraj got him played on to his stumps.
Mohammad Shami came back to produce a jaffa and extracted the outside edge of Wiaan Mulder’s bat to leave South Africa seven down.
Temba Bavuma has been the rock standing solidly between South Africa’s defeat and an Indian win in Centurion and Virat Kohli and company will be desperate to see his back right after the lunch interval.