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India Breaches Another Fortress, South Africa Loses First Test In Centurion
By CricShots - Dec 30, 2021 5:48 pm
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After starting 2021 after breaching Australia’s fortress at Gabba, India has ended the year has breached South Africa’s fortress in Centurion. There was rain forecast for the final day, but the rain gods stayed away, as India pulled off a brilliant performance with the red cherry on Day 5 to draw first blood in the three-match Test series. South Africa started the day confidently, with Dean Elgar and Temba Bavuma scoring runs at a brisk pace.

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Team India dominated in Centurion Test

Howeverm, just when things were getting easy for South Africa, Jasprit Bumrah got the prized wicket of Elgar, who was found plumb in front of the stumps. The Protean skipper walked back after scoring a defiant 156-ball 77. Quinton De Kock played a quickfire knock of 21 off 28 deliveries and perished when he tried to play one shot too many as he chopped one off towards the stumps. 

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Wiann Mulder departed in the next over itself and was dismissed by an absolute JAFFA from Mohammed Shami. Shami bowled the ball at a good length with the red cherry shaping away, Mulder tried to defend it, the ball took the outside edge of his blade, and Rishabh Pant completed the formalities with the gloves.

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Team India breaks the fortress in Centurion

Marco Jansen was the next man to get dismissed. The tall South African edged Mohammed Shami to Rishabh Pant, who completed a good low catch behind the stumps. Then, Kagiso Rabada came and went. Ravichandran Ashwin bowled a flighted delivery, and the southpaw ended up hitting the ball straight to point and departed for a duck.

And finally, there was jubilation for the Indian side when Ashwin took the final South African wicket. Lungi Ngidi was dismissed off the very first ball that he faced, as India went 1-0 up in the series.

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Amidst all this, Temba Bavuma stood strong at one end fort as he didn’t let any loose delivery bowled by the Indians go away and at the same time was solid in defense. Bavuma was unbeaten on 35, having faced 80 deliveries. But, his vigil went in vain. So, Virat Kohli and Co. go 1-0 up and are on course to conquer their final frontier.

Here is the how the cricketing fraternity reacted to India’s win:

https://twitter.com/mscmedia2/status/1476583888822538245?s=21

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