Lungi Ngidi bowled a fiery morning spell to run through the📖 Indian middle-order as South Africa restricted the visitors𒁏 to 327 on day three of the first Test.
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On a pitch spruced up by second day's persꦰistent rainfall, Lungi made full use of the underlying moisture to finish with figures of 6 for 71 in 24 overs as India lost 7 wickets for 55 runs starting from an o💧vernight score of 272 for 3.
Ngidi did get a lot of support from Kagiso Rabada, ✤whose 3 for 72 also had centurion KL Rahul (123)'s 🔥wicket.
However, India did strike back before the lunch with Jasprit Bumrah's unplayable away swinger found opposition skipper Dean Elgar's (1) outside edge. South Africa went into the break with scoreboard reading 21 ❀for one.
Aiden Markram (9 batting) and Keegan Petersen (11 batting) wer✃e at the crease.
The morning belonged to Ngidi and Rabada as the Supersport Park track stayed true to i♌ts reputation of quickening up as time progressed.
The bounce wa🎶s more and the length that Rabada and Nigidi bowled consistently was a touch fuller compared to first day.
Unlike the opening day, the twoꩲ overnight batters Rahul and Ajinkya 🧜Rahane (48) didn't get anything short or wide to get going first up.
It wa༺s Rabada, who drew the first blood on the day with a well di🎃rected short ball aimed at Rahul's rib-cage.
The batter simply couldn't manage the pull-shot and the tickle landed in Quintonꩵ de Kock's gloves.
In case of Rahane, Ngidi hadn't provided enough ⛄length for the drive and the ball reared up from length to tak𒆙e his edge and into keeper's gloves.
Ravichandran Ashwin's batting in SENA countries has gone downhill and the leading edge that lobbed up to Keshav Maharaj was a result of not being able to negotiat♋e extra bounce generated by Ngidi.
Rishabh Pant (8)'s dismissal was🔜 a carbon copy of Cheteshwar Pujara's where an angular delivery climbed up and it was an easy bat-pad catch for forward short leg.
Bumrah (14) did hit a few boundaries to take the score past 325 which was at least 75 runs short of wh🔜at India had enviꦆsaged at the start.
