Kohli, Pujara steady India after early wickets
January 24, 2018  15:04
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India 31-2 (21 ovs) vs SA | Scorecard

Philander bowls another superb delivery as Pujara is beaten all ends up outside the off-stump. He is surviving somehow against the fast bowlers and is not too bothered about not getting off the mark.

Kohli turns Rabada on the leg side for a single before Pujara continues to defend watchfully to continue to be without a run.

Philander getting a long first spell as he continues to bowl his eighth over on the trot. The first ball comes in sharply and bounces as Kohli is hit on the thighpad before the India captain plays another maiden over, the fourth in a row for Philander and his seventh out of eight overs bowled so far.

Rabada gets Pujara to edge one but it goes along the ground and the fielder in the gully does well to stop it. He again edges the next ball and the fielder in the slips does well to stop it.

Pujara is no hurry to get off the mark as he plays out a maiden from Rabada, and is yet to score a run from 43 balls faced so far.

Lungi Ngidi comes into the attack after a splendid first spell from Philander, in which he took one for one in eight overs, including seven maidens.

The second ball is down the leg side as wicketkeeper de Kock does well to come up with a diving stop to his left and save some runs. Kohli picks a leg bye before Pujara misses the flick and ends up with a leg bye.

Kohli flashes at a wide delivery from Ngidi and is beaten before a short ball down the leg side beats him before de Kock makes another good stop to give away just one leg bye.

Kohli clips Rabada past mid-on for two runs before he gets an edge but it goes along the ground to the slips.

Kohli clips the last ball through the leg side for two more runs to take his score to 11.

Ngidi beats Pujara with one that comes in sharply and hits him on the pads but the umpire turns down the confident leg before shout.

Pujara completes the half-century he won't be proud of, 50 dot balls in a row without scoring a run.

The ball tracker shows that Pujara was lucky to survive that leg before shout. Infact, if South Africa had taken the DRS, that would have gone in their favour with the ball going on to hit the leg stump.

He had an opportunity to get some runs off the last ball as he flicked a full delivery off his pads but could not beat the fielder at midwicket.

Kohli, on 11, is lucky as Philander puts down a simple catch on the leg side. Kohli went for the pull against Rabada but got a top edge which lobbed on the off-side but it was put down by Philander and the bowler was not at all impressed.

Rabada overpitches and Kohli this time slaps it through the covers for a four as India reach 31 for two in 21 overs.
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