IND vs SA: That's TEA on Day 1
India 176/7 at tea on Day 1 against South Africa in Centurion. (KL Rahul 39*; Kagiso Rabada 5/41)
Kagiso Rabada derailed India in the second session with four wickets as South Africa reduced the visitors to 176 for seven at tea on the opening day of the first Test here on Tuesday.
Rabada (5/41) picked up the wickets of Shreyas Iyer (31), Virat Kohli (38), Ravichandran Ashwin (8) and Shardul Thakur (24) in the post-lunch period that witnessed 50 overs being completed.
KL Rahul (39 not out) and Thakur shared 43 runs for the seventh wicket.
Earlier, India had reached 91 for three against South Africa at lunch.
Invited to bat, India were in a spot of bother at 24 for three Kohli and Iyer rode on luck to stabilise the visitors' innings with unbeaten 67 runs for the fourth wicket but could add just one after the break as Rabada came to the party.
Left-arm pacer Nandre Burger (2/39), who made his Test debut, also looked dangerous.
14 five-wicket hauls for Kagiso Rabada in just 61 Tests. He's keeping pace with a South African legend. Shaun Pollock got to 14 in 60 Tests, but then took only two more of the rest of his 108-match career. Somehow that's not gonna happen to KG, is it?
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