India inch closer to victory as Prince provides resistance
India is on the verge of an emphatic victory in the second Test match at Kingsmead, requiring another three wickets to register a rare Test win on the South African soil. In Test cricket, the visitors, if go onto win the ongoing Test in Durban, it will be
their second ever triumph in the land of Proteas.
On the other hand, Ashwell Prince played a defiant knock in order to resist http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s push for victory. The left hand batsman stood as pillar of strength in order to rescue his team from a likely defeat. In doing so, he has kept his team’s hope alive and has
provided them with an outside chance of saving the game. Apart from Prince, all his colleagues failed to make an impression with the bat as the only score of substance was 33 from the bat of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887.
The first session of play completely belonged to the touring team. In the action, the team from Subcontinent scalped four wickets, conceding only 71 runs. It has been an instrumental all-round performance from the Indian players. They have been able to bounce
back from a crushing defeat at Super Sports Park, where the hosts trounced them by a significant margin of an innings and 25 runs.
In the first hour of play, Indian bowlers bowled a persistent line and length in order to entice the batsmen into a false stroke-play. And, their probing seam bowling earned them healthy dividends. As a result, India moved closer to their task of beating
their opposition.
Sreesanth bowled a lively spell in the morning session and in the process, he scalped the important wicket of Jacques Kallis. The right-arm bowler delivered a superb bouncer to get rid of Kallis. It was brutal short delivery and it bounced quickly on Kallis,
who was in no position to play the defensive shot, so resultantly, the ball struck on his glove and popped up to the gully region, where http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 took a clean catch.
Zaheer Khan, who was the pick of the bowlers in the first innings, struggled in the second outing as the South African batsmen attacked him, in the start of his spell. However, he bounced back today with a brilliant spell of left-arm swing bowling.
Furthermore, Zaheer troubled the late order batsmen with his left-arm angle. By the virtue of his nagging display with the red cherry, the Indian premier quick bowler collected two wickets in first session. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn with
a brilliant away-going delivery. The ball was pitched up and it landed on around the off-stump. Steyn played a flashy drive, but only managed to get the outside edge towards the third slip, where Pujara took a stunning catch.
Meanwhile, Khan was lucky to get rid of Mark Boucher. Umpire Steve Davis robbed Boucher with a poor decision, when he gave him out, leg-before wicket, and the replay showed that the ball was completely missing the stumps.
Harbhajan Singh ripped the heart out of South African batting, when he dismissed AB de Villiers with an off-spinning delivery, getting him out lbw. AB’s wicket opened the window for an Indian victory.
Paul Harris and Prince will resume the innings for the hosts in the post-lunch session. The Proteas need another 121 runs to avoid a series levelling win. On the contrary, team India only need three wickets to draw the series level.
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