Scorecard
(overnight 9/2) Z Hamza b Jadeja F du Plessis b Yadav T Bavuma st Saha b Nadeem H Klaasen b Jadeja G Linde c Sharma b Yadav D Piedt lbw Shami K Rabada run out A Nortje lbw Nadeem L Ngidi not out Extras (b 8, lb 3, nb 1) Total (all out; 56.2 overs) FOW: 3-16, 4-107, 5-107, 6-119, 7-129, 8-130, 9-162
Bowling: M Shami 10-4-22-2, U Yadav 9-1-40-3, S Nadeem 11.2-4-22-2, R Jadeja 14-3-19-2, R Ashwin 12-1-48-0. 62
1 32 6 37 4 0 4 0 12 162 (following on)
Q de Kock b Yadav 5 D Elgar retired hurt 16 Z Hamza b Shami 0 F du Plessis lbw Shami 4 T Bavuma c Saha b Shami 0 H Klaasen lbw Yadav 5 G Linde run out 27 D Piedt b Jadeja 23 *T de Bruyn batting 30 K Rabada c Jadeja b Ashwin 12 A Nortje batting 5 Extras (b 5) 5 Total (8 wickets; 46 overs) 132 FOW: 1-5, 2-10, 3-18, 4-22, 4-26*, 5-36, 6-67, 7-98, 8-121
Bowling: M Shami 9-5-10-3, U Yadav 9-1-35-2, R Jadeja 13-5-36-1, S Nadeem 5-0-18-0, R Ashwin 10-3-28-1.
* Concussion substitute
He snared du Plessis with a ball that came in and bowled Hamza with one that straightened.
India’s spinners had greater guile and extracted more purchase than South Africa. A swarm of fielders around the bat, including at times silly point and silly mid-off, and overs ending quickly meant the pressure was unremitting.
THOROUGHLY BEATEN “Relentless” and “disciplined” were terms Hamza used more than once to describe India’s bowling. “With the new ball they made us play more and our defence wasn’t good enough. Maybe we should have prepared more mentally when it came to playing them,” he said.
Often used in tandem, Jadeja and Nadeem were an exhibition of different versions of left-arm orthodox spin bowling. Jadeja was flatter, quicker and would push batsmen on the back foot. Nadeem relied more on drift and turn to draw them out.
Nadeem and Linde were playing their first Test but proof of how thin on experience South Africa are lay in the welter of first-class games the Indian had played and against better players of spin.
If you had to nit-pick, it would be Ravichandran Ashwin taking only one of the 16 wickets that fell on Monday. Rabada trying to heave Ashwin leading to the first full day of play being extended, however, summed up everything that has been wrong with South Africa on this trip.