Debutant Ngidi runs through India in 135-run victory

With that he earned the dubious distinction of being the first Indian batsman ever to get run-out in both innings of a Test match.

Further du Plessis added, “Everyone has chipped in (from South Africa’s perspective)”.

Kohli hasn’t criticized any individual players in public. Every time he is put under pressure, Kohli wants to take wickets by controlling runs. “As a team we have been better”.

He fell early and so did Pujara, which left Vijay and the skipper Virat Kohli to do the fix job. “The previous one was more of a sense of excitement and the best one to watch but I take pleasure out of winning games like this, where the team needs a lot of heart and a lot of character and a lot of fight to make sure we get across the line”. But you make one decision and you back it.

“I was very concerned when I got here, leading up to the Test match”, he told a news conference.

“It was tough for us in India”.

Kohli: I’m saying that we don’t decide XI according to the results. That’s why we’ve got such a big squad. We need to be better as a collective. You can’t pinpoint and say which is the best 11.

“The moment for me, I think, was the captain’s wicket”, said Lungi Ngidi after stunning match figures of seven for 90 had won him the Man of the Match award. The journalist hit back at Kohli by expressing, “In how many have you changed the XI?”.

“They just see it as another game where they can perform”.

It was 20 January, 2017 when Lungi Ngidi, touted to be a limited-overs prospect, was adjudged the Man of the Match for a superb spell of two wickets for 12 runs in his debut Twenty20 worldwide (T20I) for South Africa against Sri Lanka at his home ground, Centurion. “How many draws”, pointed out the angry Indian skipper. (Kohli was close with his record as test captain, having won 20 and lost five). How many have we won? To show just how much South Africa were enjoying themselves, de Villiers pulled off a funky celebration, chipping the ball ahead like a rugby player before regathering it to score the try. “So you cannot mind that but yes sometimes you do feel inside that maybe I could have got five wickets”, said Shami at the end of Day 4 trying to hide the sorrow of missing a five-wicket haul.

“[Makhaya] Ntini, Nel and Dale Steyn were my idols that I looked up to”. His aggression was reserved for the opposition and India overcame a tough Aussie unit to register another series win – at home. And answering your question, sir, how many times did South Africa come into the game in India? When asked about India’s preparation for South Africa tour, Bedi came up with a stinging response. The South African team has too many swift fielders to exploit the half-chances. Dissatisfied, Kohli took his complaints to a higher authority, remonstrating animatedly in the match referee’s office, too. “We have come here to play”, Kohli said. I felt that I had worked hard and sort of figured out a game plan of bowling toward him [Kohli].

But Du Plessis said he did not believe his quest for pace-friendly pitches could be compared to conditions in India when South Africa were beaten 3-0 in 2015-2016 on pitches which gave plenty of help to India s spin bowlers.

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The third and final Test starts at the Wanderers next Wednesday.

“We haven’t had the opportunity to beat India 3-0 for a while”. “Now I’ve sort of found my feet and I know which path I’m going down as a cricketer”. All the bowling errors of the first morning had been made up for through some good fielding and a South African collapse.

Kohli dismissed suggestions that India were no longer worthy of their top ranking after the two defeats. But even in Cape Town, where the first Test technically ended in three days, no one said anything against nature of the wicket. Why? No other Indian batsman reached 50 in either innings of the test. It certainly played a part in the subsequent series against England in which the Proteas were defeated at home.