2.3
Steyn to Kohli, 1 wide, he is welcomed with a quick short delivery to which he takes his eyes off. Fortunately for the batsman, that is a bit leg-sidish and goes past his left elbow
2.5
Steyn to Kohli, 4 byes, another short ball! Vicious one! Kohli again caught in a awkward position and again luckily for him it just bounces over the head, and over the keeper
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.5
Tsotsobe to Kohli, OUT, and now Kohli is gone for a duck! Tsotsobe strikes with an angled delivery outside off which was slightly short in length. The batsman tried to steer it down to third man, but it just skims off the face of the bat to the keeper.
**V Kohli c †de Kock b Tsotsobe 0 (7m 5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00 **
he was saying he is not afraid Yes he is not afraid to get out
Tsotsobe to RG Sharma, OUT, caught at short midwicket! This is going the same way as the first one! It was a short of length delivery on the body and Rohit goes for his usual front-foot pull and gets it on the middle too, but he is unable to keep it down. Hashim Amla at short midwicket times his jump to perfection to pluck this one out! Excellent reflex catch there. Loppsy is elated
**RG Sharma c Amla b Tsotsobe 19 (34m 26b 2x4 0x6) SR: 73.07 **
GermanPlayer: “SA and India are the exact opposites of each other. SA has a tremendous overseas record, barring Multinational tournaments. India have a horrible overseas record, barring multinational tournaments!”
M.Hamza.Amir: “Okay India. What justifications will you give now on this performance? evil grin”
cris: "The Indian batsmen have been rattled by Jo'burg. All three wickets have fallen to innocuous deliveries. Very poor for the supposed best batting lineup in the world.." ---- Make it four now
8.4
Morkel to Rahane, OUT, short and wide and another wicket! This one was close to the wide marker, but Rahane, unlike two balls ago, chases this one. AB takes it and is the first one to appeal, then everyone appeals and the umpire raises the finger
**AM Rahane c †de Kock b Morkel 8 (17b 1x4 0x6) SR: 47.05 **
Philander to Dhoni, OUT, great catch from QDK! It was just outside off, Dhoni didn't move much and pushed at it and managed a thick outside edge. It was probably going past the keeper and de Kock leapt to his right to take it with his right hand
MS Dhoni c †de Kock b Philander 19 (43m 31b 0x4 0x6) SR: 61.29
Sandeep: "Someone was attributing India's poor performance to the lack of match practices in SA and the grueling schedule etc. PAK went to SA after playing back to back matches in UAE and even with not much time to adjust to the new conditions, they performed much better! There is no excuse for getting exposed for our weaknesses!"
Rohail: "This series win is equally important for the South African cricket board. After all the arrogance, the bullying, months of schedule changing and dictation by the BCCI, their team still gets hammered and brought back to reality. Hope SA hammer all the nails in the coffin and win in all formats."
Dhawan and Kohli so far have been no shows. No hit Sharma actually doing better than I expected. India's best batsman Pujara belongs in ODI. He scored 75 I think in his first series in SA 2 years ago. Yuvi replacement Rahane did no better.
Murali Vijay also belongs in ODI. Raina was playing well. Got out to good shot that was brilliantly caught.
Fisherman Dhoni did what he does best.
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Pak may have done better without practice. But that doesn't take away reality batsmen need some practice in new conditions.**
India hasn't brought her best options against pace. Mukund and Karthik replacing no hit and dhoni would have been nice. Vijay should get India off to better starts in Tests. Pujara should stabilize the batting.
Good to see Ashwin and Jadeja hang in for a while. And show the south Africans are not the second coming of Holding Roberts et al.
Hoping for interesting Test series.
Disgusting that fir Tendulkar previous plans were altered.
well we are accepting it, ap bhi accept kr le Indians play well only on home ground