There you go.. first wicket for India this morning as Jadeja strikes
with the new ball. Amla's marathon innings, for just 25 runs though,
comes to an end as Jadeja breaches his defences.
You have to give it to the batsman though, not only has he survived close to 5 hours in the middle to stall Team India, Jadeja had to produce a stunning, almost unplayable delivery to get rid of him. Pitched on the mid, sharply turning away from the batsman, Alma came forward in defence, the ball kisses the bat and knocks off the bails.
Amla falls, with a strike marginally over 10, but if South Africa manage to salvage this, this will be a memorable moment!
The struggling Faf du Plessis walks out to bat when South Africa needs to wear out over two sessions. Adelaide 2012 repeat, anyone?
It's the final day of South Africa's tour of India and the visitors have finally shown the kind of mental fortitude that was expected of them when the Test series started in Mohali, a month back. Riding on Ajinkya Rahane's superb hundreds in both innings (only the fifth Indian batsman to do so), India set South Africa an improbable target of 481.
The visitors lost Dean Elgar early on and another Indian victory looked a foregone conclusion. Tell this to Temba Bavuma, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers. Bavuma, batting for the first time as an opener lasted 117 deliveries for his 34, Amla has already faced 207 balls for his 23 runs, AB has consumed 91 balls for his 11 runs. 72 runs came from 72 overs - at a rate of exactly 1 RPO, but the task is far from complete.
If they can pull off a draw from here, they would go back home and subsequently into the England series with a lot of confidence. India have 90 overs in which to take the 8 remaining wickets. South Africa have been there and done that!
Temba Bavuma may have a small body frame but he has shown that he possesses a big heart when it comes to batting on difficult wickets like the one here at Ferozeshah Kotla.
Though, he was not sure while arriving in India about getting any chance to play, the way things unfolded during the Test series – South Africa losing two matches without putting up any fight – Bavuma was roped in to stop the slide.
Being called as Sachin by his T20 franchise team, the Lions, Bavuma stood like a rock for 153 minutes to deny the Indian attack on the penultimate day of the fourth and final Test here on Sunday.
Bavuma, in fact, defended his team's strategy of trying to block every delivery in order to salvage a difficult looking draw. "It's a tough ask, asking guys to bat 90 overs. It will be Day 5, so we except wicket to deteriorate even more. But we have the experience, we have the skills definitely. Whatever happens, we will go down fighting. You see Hash (Amla) there, he's laid down his mark. AB is also still there, we still have Faf (Du Plessis), Dane Vilas, so we will definitely carry on the spirit, and try our best to salvage a draw out of this game," said the 25-year-old opener after scoring a painstaking 34 runs from 117 deliveries.
On the other hand, Indian speedster Umesh Yadav, though, looked surprised at how the visitors played a dead cricket but defended his skipper Virat Kohli's strategy of not enforcing the follow-on against South Africa at the end of Day Two.
"It is a strategy that we took. We wanted to score runs and set a target that makes the team comfortable and then we thought of attacking. We felt that the more we scored in the first hour, the better it will be for us," said the Vidarbha fast bowler said.
Yadav, like any other bowler, looked frustrated over the approach of Proteas batsmen, scoring just 72 runs in as many overs. "Yes it's a surprise as we did not think that they would play like this," said the speedster. "The way they are defending is a surprise and they are not even trying to play a shot. Even the deliveries in which they can score are being defended."
However, he looked confident that the Proteas would not be able to survive an entire fifth day on Monday by merely defending on this track. "It becomes so boring that you start thinking as to whether something will happen or not," Yadav said in reference to Hashim Amla's unbeaten 23 off 207 balls.
Bavuma, who is a middle-order batsman for his team back home, was happy to be playing as opener for his country. As he went out to bat on Sunday, the instructions were quite clear but different to him... "Defend anything and everything".
You have to give it to the batsman though, not only has he survived close to 5 hours in the middle to stall Team India, Jadeja had to produce a stunning, almost unplayable delivery to get rid of him. Pitched on the mid, sharply turning away from the batsman, Alma came forward in defence, the ball kisses the bat and knocks off the bails.
Amla falls, with a strike marginally over 10, but if South Africa manage to salvage this, this will be a memorable moment!
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The struggling Faf du Plessis walks out to bat when South Africa needs to wear out over two sessions. Adelaide 2012 repeat, anyone?
It's the final day of South Africa's tour of India and the visitors have finally shown the kind of mental fortitude that was expected of them when the Test series started in Mohali, a month back. Riding on Ajinkya Rahane's superb hundreds in both innings (only the fifth Indian batsman to do so), India set South Africa an improbable target of 481.
The visitors lost Dean Elgar early on and another Indian victory looked a foregone conclusion. Tell this to Temba Bavuma, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers. Bavuma, batting for the first time as an opener lasted 117 deliveries for his 34, Amla has already faced 207 balls for his 23 runs, AB has consumed 91 balls for his 11 runs. 72 runs came from 72 overs - at a rate of exactly 1 RPO, but the task is far from complete.
If they can pull off a draw from here, they would go back home and subsequently into the England series with a lot of confidence. India have 90 overs in which to take the 8 remaining wickets. South Africa have been there and done that!
Temba Bavuma may have a small body frame but he has shown that he possesses a big heart when it comes to batting on difficult wickets like the one here at Ferozeshah Kotla.
Though, he was not sure while arriving in India about getting any chance to play, the way things unfolded during the Test series – South Africa losing two matches without putting up any fight – Bavuma was roped in to stop the slide.
Being called as Sachin by his T20 franchise team, the Lions, Bavuma stood like a rock for 153 minutes to deny the Indian attack on the penultimate day of the fourth and final Test here on Sunday.
Bavuma, in fact, defended his team's strategy of trying to block every delivery in order to salvage a difficult looking draw. "It's a tough ask, asking guys to bat 90 overs. It will be Day 5, so we except wicket to deteriorate even more. But we have the experience, we have the skills definitely. Whatever happens, we will go down fighting. You see Hash (Amla) there, he's laid down his mark. AB is also still there, we still have Faf (Du Plessis), Dane Vilas, so we will definitely carry on the spirit, and try our best to salvage a draw out of this game," said the 25-year-old opener after scoring a painstaking 34 runs from 117 deliveries.
On the other hand, Indian speedster Umesh Yadav, though, looked surprised at how the visitors played a dead cricket but defended his skipper Virat Kohli's strategy of not enforcing the follow-on against South Africa at the end of Day Two.
"It is a strategy that we took. We wanted to score runs and set a target that makes the team comfortable and then we thought of attacking. We felt that the more we scored in the first hour, the better it will be for us," said the Vidarbha fast bowler said.
Yadav, like any other bowler, looked frustrated over the approach of Proteas batsmen, scoring just 72 runs in as many overs. "Yes it's a surprise as we did not think that they would play like this," said the speedster. "The way they are defending is a surprise and they are not even trying to play a shot. Even the deliveries in which they can score are being defended."
However, he looked confident that the Proteas would not be able to survive an entire fifth day on Monday by merely defending on this track. "It becomes so boring that you start thinking as to whether something will happen or not," Yadav said in reference to Hashim Amla's unbeaten 23 off 207 balls.
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Bavuma, who is a middle-order batsman for his team back home, was happy to be playing as opener for his country. As he went out to bat on Sunday, the instructions were quite clear but different to him... "Defend anything and everything".
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