Markram’s century, Bumrah sixer, India has a target of 79 runs.

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Cape Town. Opener Adam Markram (106) scored a brilliant century but due to no support from the rest of the batsmen, South Africa was reduced to 176 runs by lunch time on Thursday, the second day of the second and final Test against India. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah played an important role in defeating the host team by taking six wickets for 61 runs.

India has got a target of 79 runs to win this match and level the series at 1-1. Apart from Bumrah’s six wickets, Mukesh Kumar took 2 wickets and Mohammad Siraj and Prasidh Krishna took 1 wicket each.

South Africa’s first innings was limited to 55 runs, while India scored 153 runs and took a lead of 98 runs. South Africa started playing yesterday with a score of 66 runs for the loss of three wickets. Bumrah started putting pressure on South Africa by getting David Bedingham caught by the wicketkeeper in the very first over of the day and by taking four wickets one after the other, the host’s score was reduced to 111 runs for seven wickets.

Adam Markram, playing with patience at one end, got good support from Kagiso Rabada and he completed his century while playing his shots. Markram completed his century by hitting 2 consecutive fours off Bumrah. But after completing the century, Markram was caught by Rohit Sharma on the ball of Mohammad Siraj.

Markram hit 17 fours and 2 sixes in his innings of 103 balls. Rabada also became the victim of Krishna on the team’s score of 162. Bumrah then came on the attack and got Lungi Ngidi caught by Yashasvi Jaiswal at third slip, reducing South Africa’s innings to 176 runs.

For India, Bumrah took 6 wickets for 61 runs in 13.5 overs. This is the ninth time in Bumrah’s career of taking 5 wickets in an innings.

–IANS

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