Left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, who scored 72 on Day 3 of the second Test against India on Saturday. He was the top-scorer and tried to put some pressure on India. However, Indian bowlers did a great job before India first innings declared at 601/5. Maharaj played 132 balls and hit 12 boundaries in his knock.

“It’s very sore (shoulder), I dived on it yesterday, lots of bruising. But hopefully, I will be fine going further into the series,” he said. “Myself and Vernon (Philander) decided that trying to go to tea unscathed was the first target. I was a bit injudicious at times (being a lower order batsman), but he (Philander) kept me in my mind and space and I managed to get some runs.”

“We wanted to spend as much time in the middle as possible. I don’t know what India will do, but we need to keep being positive, don’t go into a shell and try and build some partnerships and transfer some pressure back on India,” Maharaj said.

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“I sat with Prasanna Raman (South Africa’s analyst) last night, the gameplan for me going forward was to how to play spin… I wanted to try and go outside the off-stump, for (Ravindra) Jadeja, I tried to get my left leg out of the way,” he added.

Keshav Maharaj also talked about the pitch.

“The wicket is deteriorating, it’s becoming difficult to score runs and (Mohammed) Shami got it to reverse as well. But think we managed it well,” he said.