In the Centurion Test, South Africa defeated Team India by 135 runs and won the Test series 2-0.
The dream of winning the Indian team consistently 10 Test series was also broken. Batting first, winning the toss, South Africa were all out with 335 runs in the first innings. In reply, the Indian team got all out scoring 307 runs in the first innings. On the basis of the first innings, Africa got 28 runs lead. In the second innings, the Indian team crushed South Africa by 258 runs. At the same time, India got the target of 287 runs to win. In response to this goal, Team India got reduced to 151 runs.
For the Indian team, Rohit Sharma has scored 47 runs. Apart from them, Mohammad Shami contributed 28 runs. Cheteshwar Pujara and Parthiv Patel contributed 19-19. Only these four batsmen in India can reach the tenth digit Lungi Nagesi, who debuted for South Africa, took the maximum six wickets. Apart from them, Kagiso Rabada achieved three successes. A batsman was run out.
Africa scored 287 runs for Team India
At the stroke of partnership with Dean Algar (61) and AB de Villiers (80), Africa gave India a target of 287 runs. Africa got all out in 258 runs in their second innings.
Apart from Elgar and De Villiers, Captain Faf du Plessis contributed 48 runs for the hosts team. With this contribution, Plessis has completed his 3,000 runs in Test cricket.
Mohammed Shami picked up four wickets for India in this innings, while Jaspreet Bumrah got three wickets. Ishant Sharma has got two successes. Ashwin was also successful in taking a wicket.
India All-round at 307 in the first Innings
With the finest century innings of captain Kohli (153), India scored 307 runs in the first innings against Africa. On the basis of this innings, the Indian team is 28 runs behind South Africa. The hosts had scored 335 runs in their first innings.
Apart from Kohli in the first innings for India, Murali Vijay scored 46 runs. Ravichandran Ashwin contributed 38 runs Apart from this, none of the team’s batsmen could stay on the field for long.
Morne Morkel for South Africa took four wickets while Vernon Philander, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabda Lungi Nigadi got one success.
Kohli scored superb 153 runs
Team India captain Virat Kohli has done a fantastic 153 in his Test career by making his 21st century. At the same time Virat Kohli broke the record of captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as captain. Dhoni’s name as captain is the best score of 90 in South Africa, which he made in Centurion in 2010. Kohli, however, played a spectacular century by leaving behind Dhoni. It is not that Virat Kohli has become the second Indian to score a hundred on South Africa’s land as captain. Before him, Sachin Tendulkar had made hundreds as captain in Cape Town in 1997.
South Africa’s first innings drop to 335:
South Africa’s all-time out on 335 runs in their first innings On behalf of South Africa, Eden Markram scored the highest score of 94 while Hashim Amla scored 82 runs. In addition, captain Faf du Plessis scored 63 runs. Ravichandran Ashwin took 4 wickets. Ishant got three successes and Shami got a breakthrough.
Shami completes 100 Test wickets
Mohammed Shami caught Keshav Maharaj (18) at 282 for the wicket with Parthiv Patel behind the wicket. With this he completed his 100 wickets in Test cricket. Shami has become the 21st Indian bowler to score a century in Tests. At the same time, he is the seventh fast bowler in India to achieve this milestone. Shami got this achievement in the 29th match.
Wickets of South Africa
Ashwin gave Dean Elgar (31) the first breakthrough to India. He got Elgar caught by Murali Vijay. Apart from this, Ashwin prevented Eden Markram (94) from completing a century.
Marcaram was six runs away from his century, when Ashwin took the edge of his bat and got caught in the hands of wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel. Marcaram has hit 15 fours in his innings, facing 150 balls.
Ishant Sharma gave South Africa a third blow when they bowled dangerous looking de Villiers (20) and bowled the pavilion. Hrithik Pandya got Hashim Amla (82) run out to give South Africa a fourth blow.
After this, new batsmen Quinton de Kock (0), who came on the crease without any opening, was caught by Virat Kohli on the bowling of Ashwin. Vernon Philander (0), who came after Deccan, also returned without pocketing the run out of the innings.
Mohammed Shami hit Keshav Maharaj (18) on the back of Parthiv Patel to give South Africa a seventh blow. After this du Plessis got together with Kagiso Rabada (11) and both of them reached the team score of 324. Prior to Ishant Sharma’s catch at the hands of Hardik Pandya, Virat Kohli gave life to Virat Kohli in a slip on Ravichandran Ashwin’s delivery.
End of the innings of Faf du Plessis Ishant made them bold. Du Plessis hit nine boundaries in his innings. Morne Morkel (6) was caught by Ashwin by Murali Vijay, ending the hosts’ innings.
