Kohli and Iyer stood firm, till lunch India reached 91 runs for three wickets – Dainik Savera Times

Both of them made an unbroken partnership of 67 runs for the fourth wicket and made the team comeback. The Indian team had a bad start after being invited to bat first. The team lost the wickets of captain Rohit Sharma (05), Yashasvi Jaiswal (17) and Shubhman Gill (02) for 24 runs in the first hour (within 12 overs).

Experienced Kagiso Rabada troubled the Indian openers with balls outside the off stump. Rohit, while trying to hit a big shot on his short pitch ball, was caught by debutant Nandre Berger at long leg. Left arm fast bowler Nandre Berger 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 dropped Iyer’s catch at point while Tony de Jorzi gave life to Kohli by dropping an easy catch at square leg on the score of four runs.

Kohli has so far hit four fours in his 47-ball innings, while Iyer has hit three fours and a six in his 46-ball innings. South African captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bowl first and his bowlers were in favorable conditions in the initial hour of the match. Was successful in taking advantage of the circumstances.

Rohit wants to play the pull shot in all formats and Bavuma had deployed the fielder at long leg from the start against the Indian captain. After bowling outside the off-stump in the initial overs, Rabada bowled a short ball to Rohit and he got caught in the bowler’s trick.

Berger took an easy catch 10 meters inside the boundary line. Young left-handed batsman Jaiswal showed wisdom by leaving the balls outside the off-stump for the wicketkeeper and during this he also hit fours against Rabada and Burger. However, he stuck his bat to the ball coming out of Berger’s off stump and wicketkeeper Kyle Verreen made no mistake in taking the catch.

Berger then troubled Gill by bowling around the body. He tried to play the ball outside the leg stump with loose hands but the ball hit his gloves and Vereen took a difficult catch behind the wicket. After getting a lease of life, Kohli and Iyer batted fluently and did not give the South African bowling a chance to dominate by hitting boundaries at regular intervals.