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India vs South Africa 1st Test Live Score and Updates: India reached 157 for 2 at tea on the first day of the opening Test against South Africa here on Sunday.
KL Rahul was going strong on 68 and captain Virat Kohli was giving him company on 19 at the break.
Opener Mayank Agarwal made 60 while Cheteshwar Pujara was out for a duck.
Earlier, Agarwal and Rahul played with the required discipline in testing conditions to take India to 83 for no loss at lunch.
India skipper Virat Kohi made a brave call to bat first on a greenish surface which is expected to get quicker as the game progresses.
Both Rahul and Agarwal, who are close friends and play for the same domestic team, left the ball well against a pace attack which did not bowl well enough in favourable conditions.
India Playing XI: KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
South Africa Playing XI: Dean Elgar (c), Aiden Markram, Keegan Petersen, Rassie van der Dussen, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock(w), Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi
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The series, which starts from Sunday at Centurion, could either mark the final stretch of Kohli’s ascent to immortality or the slow slope into the sunset. (File)
Nearly four years ago, Virat Kohli and an impressionable young side landed in South Africa with the burning ambition to emerge as a genuinely world-beating side. India lost that series, but offered a precursor of their collective and individual capabilities, exhibiting a distinct streak of indefatigability that has come to symbolise both the captain and his team.
In the intervening four years, the group scaled unprecedented heights in Test cricket, achieving most of what they had set their heads and hearts on — two series wins in Australia and leading a Test series in England, besides reaching the World Test Championship final. (READ MORE)
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