India slip to 162/4 at lunch
9 February 2010, 08:28
By Stuart Hess in Nagpur
South Africa took two wickets in the morning session of the fourth day of the first Test as India slipped to 162/4 at lunch, still 166 runs in arrears of South Africa's first innings total of 558/6 declared.
There was less movement for the South African bowlers in the morning than there had been on the third evening when Dale Steyn destroyed India's middle and lower order in the first innings with an explosive spell of reverse swing.
Instead the wickets of Murali Vijay and Subramaniam Badrinath came via errors in judgement by the batsmen. At the other end though Sachin Tendulkar was providing a batting master class intent still on scoring runs and cutting the deficit thereby putting the South Africans under some form of pressure.
India resumed on 66/2 with Tendulkar on 15 and Vijay 27, with Tendulkar taking the initiative and looking to score at every opportunity. Neither Steyn nor Morne Morkel who opened the bowling today could extract much movement through the air, with Steyn at various times holding the ball across the seam and also attempting cutters.
South Africa's lines were inconsistent and all the bowlers barring Harris - who was bowling to a plan trying to land the ball in the rough - and to a lesser extent Steyn were guilt wasting too many deliveries down the leg-side.
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SCOREBOARD by Reuters
Scoreboard at lunch on the fourth day of the first test between India and South Africa at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur, India, on Tuesday.
South Africa first innings 558-6 declared (H. Amla 253 n.o., J.Kallis 173, AB de Villiers 53).
India first innings 233 (V. Sehwag 109, S. Badrinath 56, D. Steyn 7-51).
India second innings (overnight 66-2) G. Gambhir b Morkel 1 V. Sehwag c Smith b Steyn 16 M. Vijay c Morkel b Harris 32 S. Tendulkar not out 77 S. Badrinath c Boucher b Parnell 6 M. Dhoni not out 9 Extras (b-10 lb-5 w-5 nb-1) 21 Total: (for four wickets; 49 overs) 162 Fall of wickets: 1-1 2-24 3-96 4-122.
To bat: W. Saha, H. Singh, Z. Khan, A. Mishra, I. Sharma.
Bowling (to date): Steyn 10-0-36-1, Morkel 12-4-36-1 (w-5), Parnell 6-0-38-1, Harris 14-5-21-1, Kallis 6-2-11-0, Duminy 1-0-5-0 (nb-1).
South Africa took two wickets in the morning session of the fourth day of the first Test as India slipped to 162/4 at lunch, still 166 runs in arrears of South Africa's first innings total of 558/6 declared.
There was less movement for the South African bowlers in the morning than there had been on the third evening when Dale Steyn destroyed India's middle and lower order in the first innings with an explosive spell of reverse swing.
Instead the wickets of Murali Vijay and Subramaniam Badrinath came via errors in judgement by the batsmen. At the other end though Sachin Tendulkar was providing a batting master class intent still on scoring runs and cutting the deficit thereby putting the South Africans under some form of pressure.
India resumed on 66/2 with Tendulkar on 15 and Vijay 27, with Tendulkar taking the initiative and looking to score at every opportunity. Neither Steyn nor Morne Morkel who opened the bowling today could extract much movement through the air, with Steyn at various times holding the ball across the seam and also attempting cutters.
South Africa's lines were inconsistent and all the bowlers barring Harris - who was bowling to a plan trying to land the ball in the rough - and to a lesser extent Steyn were guilt wasting too many deliveries down the leg-side.
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SCOREBOARD by Reuters
Scoreboard at lunch on the fourth day of the first test between India and South Africa at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur, India, on Tuesday.
South Africa first innings 558-6 declared (H. Amla 253 n.o., J.Kallis 173, AB de Villiers 53).
India first innings 233 (V. Sehwag 109, S. Badrinath 56, D. Steyn 7-51).
India second innings (overnight 66-2) G. Gambhir b Morkel 1 V. Sehwag c Smith b Steyn 16 M. Vijay c Morkel b Harris 32 S. Tendulkar not out 77 S. Badrinath c Boucher b Parnell 6 M. Dhoni not out 9 Extras (b-10 lb-5 w-5 nb-1) 21 Total: (for four wickets; 49 overs) 162 Fall of wickets: 1-1 2-24 3-96 4-122.
To bat: W. Saha, H. Singh, Z. Khan, A. Mishra, I. Sharma.
Bowling (to date): Steyn 10-0-36-1, Morkel 12-4-36-1 (w-5), Parnell 6-0-38-1, Harris 14-5-21-1, Kallis 6-2-11-0, Duminy 1-0-5-0 (nb-1).
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