Ravindra Jadeja made 91 and added 225 runs with Kohli for 5th wicket.
India resumed from 273/3 and kept piling on runs, as Rahane and Kohli kept going on at the Proteas bowlers. Rahane fell for 59 runs after putting on a 178-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Just when Faf du Plessis and co would have thought that they might have a sigh of relief, Ravindra Jadeja walked in and with him at the crease, even Kohli started to up the run rate.
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Jadeja and Kohli took on the spinners and pummeled them into the ground, as Keshav Maharaj ended up with figures of 1/196 in 50 overs and Senuran Muthusamy’s figures read 1/97 in 19.3 overs. Even debutant Anrich Nortje failed to pick a wicket but gave 100 runs in his 25 overs.
India declared on 601/5 with the fall of Jadeja’s wicket and the Cricket fraternity took to Twitter to applaud a masterclass innings from captain Virat Kohli.
Here are some of the tweets: