🏏South Africa tour of India - 2025: India vs SA - 2nd Test: Day 2🏏 - Page 5

Each SA player is putting a price on their wicket, making Indians work really hard to get them out.

I hope our team players do the same.

Edged and taken! Kuldeep with some extra bounce does the trick as he draws Stubbs forward with a full ball angled across him. The ball shot up more than Stubbs expected and it flies to Rahul at first slip from high off the bat. Rahul does well to take it, having to move slightly to his right. Came quickly at him, but he makes amends for his drop earlier in the day. Stubbs falls one short of a half-century

Tristan Stubbs c Rahul b Kuldeep Yadav 49 (112b 4x4 2x6) SR: 43.75

Over 72

1 1 0 6 0 4 (12 runs)

RSA 224-5

Tony de Zorzi

22(31)

Senuran Muthusamy

9(18)

Kuldeep Yadav

17-3-48-3

Originally posted by: Savera84

Over 72

1 1 0 6 0 4 (12 runs)

RSA 224-5

Tony de Zorzi

22(31)

Senuran Muthusamy

9(18)

Kuldeep Yadav

17-3-48-3

Senuran Muthusamy - Indians are everywhere man..lol

For the first time in the history of Test cricket, each of the top-four in a team innings scored 35 or more but none of them reached/crossed 50.

Tristan Stubbs: I think a bit disappointing in the end there. I think all of us in the top six got in and no one’s really made that big one. I actually think I prefer batting at 3 than anywhere else. It (pitch) played quite nicely, but I think they bowled quite well. It was quite hard to score. But it wasn’t free-flowing. You felt comfortable, but the scoreboard wasn’t going anywhere. So I thought they bowled quite well. Every time he (Kuldeep) has come on, he’s sort of gone a bit slow with the first ball, and I managed to work his first ball of the spell. And if anything, it just beat me with the drift. I can’t believe Kuldeep got me out. Yeah (about playing Kuldeep in the nets for Delhi Capitals) and KL caught it. That makes your life that much more difficult. I think first-innings runs are going to be big. Hopefully Scholesy (Verreynne) and Sen (Muthusamy) can extend for as long as possible tomorrow and we can bat for as long as possible. And then bowl as best we can. I think that’ll be the game plan. Just extend the first innings for as long as we can. Hopefully the guys who come in now don’t give it away and get 40s, and someone can get 100.

Whose day was Day 1? South Africa's? Each of their top four got starts. They had two 80-plus partnerships in the top four which set them a good platform. Markram and Rickelton stitched the best opening partnership in the series so far. Bavuma seemed to continue from where he left off in Kolkata. He and Stubbs largely were untroubled. But they fell to strokes they might look back on. De Zorzi couldn't hang around for much but South Africa have 247 runs on the board.