IND vs SA 1st Test: Rohit-Virat failed, KL Rahul saved his shame, 8 Indian batsmen out on the first day
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Due to the brilliant bowling of experienced Kagiso Rabada (five wickets for 44 runs), South Africa sent eight batsmen of India to the pavilion in the opening Test match of the two-match Test series. Rabada alone took 5 wickets in his name. By the end of play on a rain-affected day, India had scored 208 runs for eight wickets.
In the third session, play was interrupted after the 59th over due to bad light and then further play was not possible due to rain. The umpires then declared the day’s play over. At that time wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul was playing after scoring 70 runs in 105 balls. Mohammad Siraj (0) was present with him at the crease.
Rahul had scored a century while opening the innings on this ground on the last tour of the Indian team (2021). He has hit 10 fours and two sixes in his innings so far. Rabada troubled the Indian batsmen by bowling difficult line lengths outside the off stump for long periods.
Rabada has now taken five wickets for 44 runs in 17 overs, which is his best performance against India. Between lunch and tea break, India lost four wickets and all four successes were in the name of Rabada. He bowled cleverly and dismissed Rohit Sharma (five), Virat Kohli (38) and Shreyas Iyer (31).
He completed the feat of taking five wickets for the 14th time in Test cricket by taking the wickets of Ravichandran Ashwin (eight) and Shardul Thakur (24), who hit some aggressive shots. Rahul batted intelligently amid the fall of wickets from one end. His innings showed a wonderful mix of attack and patience.
When Kohli was out as the fifth batsman, the team’s score was 107 runs. Rahul has now added 101 runs with the lower order batsmen. During this period, he has made an unbroken partnership of 43 runs with Shardul for the seventh wicket, 27 runs with Jasprit Bumrah (01) for the eighth wicket and 17 runs with Siraj (01) for the ninth wicket.
After the tea break, he batted aggressively and completed his half-century with a four and a six on consecutive balls against Nandre Berger (two wickets for 50 runs). He also hit two consecutive fours against Gerald Coetzee. South African captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bowl first and his bowlers were successful in taking advantage of the favorable conditions in the initial hour of the match.
The Indian team lost the wickets of Rohit, Yashasvi Jaiswal (17) and Shubman Gill (02) for 24 runs in the first hour (within 12 overs). Rabada troubled the Indian openers with the new ball on balls outside the off stump. Rohit, while trying to hit a big shot on his short pitch ball, was caught by debutant Burger at long leg. Left arm fast bowler Burger then dismissed Jaiswal and Gill.
After this, South African fielders took easy catches of Iyer on Rabada’s ball and Kohli’s easy catch on Burger’s ball in consecutive overs. Marco Janson (1 wicket for 52 runs) dropped Iyer’s catch at point while Tony de Jorzi gave life to Kohli by leaving an easy catch at square leg on the score of four runs. Both of them added 68 runs for the fourth wicket and brought India back into the match.
Rohit wants to play pull shots in every format and Bavuma had deployed the fielder at long leg from the beginning against the Indian captain. Rabada, after bowling outside the off-stump in the initial overs, bowled a short ball to Rohit and he got caught in the pace of this bowler. Berger took an easy catch 10 meters inside the boundary line.
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