South Africa vs India 2nd Test at Centurion, 13 Jan, 2018

Toss: South Africa, who chose to bat
South Africa 335/10 (113.5)  &  256/10 (91.3)
India 307/10 (92.1)  &  151/10 (50.2)
South Africa won by 135 runs
Man of the Match: Lungi Ngidi
  • Ishant Sharma 4 * (10)

Over 0.1 Keshav Maharaj bowls a tossed up delivery to Murali Vijay, Boundary! Comes on to the front foot and drives it along the ground to sweeper cover fence for four.

Over 1.3Morne Morkel to Lokesh Rahul Boundary! ...

Over 7.2Morne Morkel to Murali Vijay Boundary! ...

Over 7.6Morne Morkel to Lokesh Rahul Boundary! ...

Over 11.1 Morne Morkel good length delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets forward and pushing well away from the body, playing at a full ball outside off that he needs to leave. But he wants to show "intent" and goes hard at the ball. Wide of cover and it raced away.

Over 11.2 Morne Morkel bowls a pitched up delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Leans forward and driven straight down the ground for four.

Over 12.2 Kagiso Rabada good length delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Goes deep in the crease and steers it down to third man fence for four.

Over 14.6Kagiso Rabada to Murali Vijay Boundary! ...

Over 16.5 Kagiso Rabada bowls a pitched up delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets forward and clipped past the diving Elgar at mid-wicket and poor Morne has to chase that from mid-on.

Over 20.1Kagiso Rabada to Virat Kohli Boundary! ...

Over 23.3 Vernon Philander bowls it short of length to Murali Vijay, Boundary! Gets rolled his wrists nicely to keep it down and cut it fine enough to beat the man at deep point. He focussed on placing it and got the desired result

Over 26.3 Keshav Maharaj bowls a tossed up delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Goes on to the back foot and open arms with a cut off the back foot. The man at sweeper cover was a mere spectator

Over 29.1 Morne Morkel good length delivery to Murali Vijay, Boundary! Moves across and flicks it into the gap past mid-wicket, no one moved and Vijay gets his first boundary of the session.

Over 29.6 Morne Morkel bowls a half volley to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Leans forward, presents the full face of the bat and drives it past the non-striker, beats Ngidi's dive at mid-on and rolls away to the fence.

Over 34.2 Keshav Maharaj bowls a tossed up delivery to Murali Vijay, Boundary! Bends down low, rolls his wrists over and places it into the gap past square leg, no need to run for those.

Over 38.5Keshav Maharaj to Rohit Sharma Boundary! ...

Over 44.6Keshav Maharaj bowls pitched up delivery to Rohit Sharma, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Boundary!

Over 52.3 Keshav Maharaj bowls a tossed up delivery to Parthiv Patel, Boundary! Gets down, gets close and negates the footmarks with a powerful drive. And then proactivity gets out the outside edge, flying past the cordon.

Over 52.6 Keshav Maharaj bowls a tossed up delivery to Parthiv Patel, Boundary! Walk down the pitch and doesn't bother keeping his flick down. Helps that mid-wicket is inside.

Over 53.2 Lungi Ngidi bowls a half volley to Parthiv Patel, Boundary! Comes on to the front foot and drives it along the ground to sweeper cover fence for four.

Over 54.4Morne Morkel to Hardik Pandya Boundary! ...

Over 57.5 Lungi Ngidi bowls a pitched up delivery to Hardik Pandya, Boundary! Comes on to the front foot and clips it down to long on fence for four.

Over 59.5Vernon Philander bowls short and wide to Virat Kohli, gets forward and guides it away towards thirdman.Boundary!

Over 64.1 Lungi Ngidi good length delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets on the back foot trying to defend, but the edge dies pretty quickly and runs away to the fence

Over 64.2 Lungi Ngidi bowls a pitched up delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets reach out well away from his body to drive, then the small matter of beating short cover-point, extra-cover and sweeper cover in place, but such is Kohli's confidence at the moment that he timed that effortlessly to the fence.

Over 64.6 Lungi Ngidi bowls a pitched up delivery to Virat Kohli, 3 runs, comes on to the front foot and works it down to long on and picks up three runs

Over 67.5 Kagiso Rabada bowls a back of length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, Boundary! Goes deep in the crease and guides it away down to third man fence for four.

Over 68.4 Lungi Ngidi good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, Boundary! Backs away in the crease and cuts it hard pass backward point and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 69.2 Kagiso Rabada bowls a pitched up delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, Boundary! Gets forward and plays a beautiful square drive wide of point; Maharaj gives chase and comes second

Over 69.3 Kagiso Rabada good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, Boundary! Gets his weight on the front foot and then let the bat flow, punched that as he stood tall and left cover and mid-off as spectators. That raced off the middle of the bat.

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