India was expected to comeback strongly after losing the first test in Centurion, but their comeback was halted by some reckless bowling performance by Dale Steyn. South Africa won the toss and elected to field, and their bowler did justice to their skipper’s decision by bowling tight on the lush green pitch and testing the Indian batsmen.
Lonwabo Tsotsobe, who had his place under scrutiny, helped the Proteas in removing Sachin Tendulkar for just 25 and taking a wonderful catch of Laxman. Then Steyn was there to take care of rest and got four wickets in his bag. Pujara was bought in for Raina but couldn’t do much good as he also went to pavilion after scoring just 19 runs to Tsotsobe. The day started with the Indian openers struggling with the bounce and swing of the pitch.
The day ended for India with 183/6, with MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh still on the crease with 20 and 15 runs consecutively. The bad light stopped play to help India from losing any more wickets and get into more danger. Now that Indian Batsmen have failed to do the job they had to do, it now on for the bowlers to keep up and put up a better show to save India from another humiliating loss in test cricket.
The crowd must have expected a better and competitive game of cricket with two of the greatest sides clashing with eachother. India will be let with the task to get back into their winning ways before the World Cup 2011 begins so that they can have a good World Cup campaign. South Africa will try and keep things tight to not let India hang on for long.
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