Indian cricket team suffered a collapse on day three of the ongoing first Test against South Africa in Centurion. The second day of the Test was washed out due to rain and India resumed play on third day at 272/3.
KL Rahul came out to resume his innings at 122* and Rahane joined him on 40*. However, Rahul fell shortly for 123 runs off Kagiso Rabada and then Lungi Ngidi picked out Rahane for 48 runs.
Ngidi and Rabada then accounted for the next four wickets to fall as Pant (8), Shardul Thakur (4), R Ashwin (4) and Mohammad Shami (8) fell in quick succession.
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Jasprit Bumrah (14) added some runs, but Marco Jansen removed him for his first Test wicket as India was bowled out for 327 runs in the first innings, managing to add just 55 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the first session of the day three.
Lungi Ngidi finished with 6/71, while Kagiso Rabada took 3/72.
The cricket fraternity was all critical of India’s collapse on day three and shared their views on Twitter.
Here are the tweets:
