It was great day for test cricket, with a good contest between bat and ball with both equally dominating.Home team got the advantage of getting southafrica out inside 300 thamks to good bowling by khans and bhajans and sharmas. Then it was the pair of gauti and viru which took the challenge to southafricans,duo put on a splendid 70 odd run stand which had only way to be broken in form of run out,an unnecessary thing in test cricket.Then it was wicket of vijay which did turned the match towards proteas side.
It was time for master blaster to get to his shoes right from the point when he entered his crease, sehwag and saachin duo put on a 249 run stand for 3rd wicket.It was part timer duminy who took sehwag who had survived many chances as amla did.The score of india then was 331/3 but thereafter when Left arm spinner paul harris switched ends to bowl through round the wicket to sachin only to end with the prize wicket of little maestro,not before he had played a most satisfying knock of 106 runs.
At the end of the day ball was little bit reverse swinging which was enough for steyn to break the timber of badrinath,being deceived him before getting his scalp.India along with laxman and mishra at the crease would look to get past the 400 mark till lunch and probably will look take as much big lead as possible so as to bat southafrica out as the pitch is deteriorating which opens options for dhoni with off and legspin of bhajji and mishra coming into play.
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