India grabbed the initiative, taking four wickets in the morning session of the fourth day of the second Castle Test.
|||IQBAL KHAN at Kingsmead
India grabbed the initiative, taking four wickets in the morning session of the fourth day of the second Castle Test as South Africa struggled to 182-7 at lunch at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead today.
Needing to get to 303 for a win, the home side lost the key wickets of Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers and Mark Boucher to slump to 155-7 after 49 overs.
But Ashwell Prince and Paul Harris fought back fought back for the South Africans to lead them into lunch with the score on 182-7 with another 121 runs required for a victory.
Like what the Kingsmead fans have seen in the past three days, wickets tumbled in the morning session as usual – so far the accumulative number of wickets to fall in the first session of play since the opening day stands at 22.
The South Africans, resuming at 111-3, battled against the Indian bowling especially Harbhajan Singh.
The off-spinner bowled well in tandem with Shantakumaran Sreesanth and the pair finally got the break – Kallis was trapped leg before by the quick bowler for 123-4 and 13 runs later De Villiers (33) was dismissed in the same manner by Singh as the South African sank further into the deep end at 136-6 and still 167 runs adrift of the winning target.
Then Zaheer Khan, punished by Graeme Smith no sooner had the south African innings began late on the third day, bagged two crucial wickets as he removed Mark Boucher (lbw) for one and had Dale Steyn caught by Cheteshwar Pujara for 10.
Then came the revival as Prince and Harris started restoring some pride to the tattered South African innings.
At the break Sreesanth had respectable figure of 3-45 off 14 overs while Singh had taken 2-55 while Khan bagged 2-45.
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