New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) South Africa produced a gritty defensive performance to battle their way to 72/2 in the second innings to trail by 408 runs at the close after India declared their second stint at 267/5 on the penultimate day of the fourth and final cricket Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Sunday.
At the close, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers were at the crease for South Africa. Amla scored 23 painstaking runs off 207 deliveries. He took 46 balls to open his account. De Villiers took 62 balls to get off the mark before posting 11 by the close.
Here is the scorecard:
India (first innings) 334 South Africa (first innings) 121 India (second innings) (190/4 overnight) Murali Vijay c Vilas b Morkel 3 Shikhar Dhawan b Morkel 21 Rohit Sharma b Morkel 0 Cheteshwar Pujara b Imran Tahir 28 Virat Kohli lbw b Abbott 88 Ajinkya Rahane not out 100 Wriddhiman Saha not out 23 Extras (lb 2, nb 2) 4 Total (five wickets declared in 100.1 overs) 267 Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Vijay, 4.6 overs), 2-8 (R Sharma, 6.1), 3-53 (Dhawan, 28.6), 4-57 (Pujara, 31.1), 5-211 (Kohli, 85.4) Bowling: Morne Morkel 21-6-51-3 Kyle Abbott 22-9-47-1 Dane Piedt 18-1-53-0 Imran Tahir 26.1-4-74-1 Dean Elgar 13-1-40-0 South Africa (second innings) (target: 481 runs) Dean Elgar c Rahane b Ashwin 4 Temba Bavuma b Ashwin 34 Hashim Amla batting 23 AB de Villiers batting 11 Extras 0 Total (two wickets; 72 overs) 72 Fall of wickets 1-5 (Elgar, 3.6 overs), 2-49 (Bavuma, 42.4). Bowling: Ishant Sharma 12-7-16-0 Ravichandran Ashwin 23-13-29-2 Ravindra Jadeja 23-16-10-0 Umesh Yadav 9-6-6-0 Shikhar Dhawan 3-1-9-0 Murali Vijay 2-0-2-0 Match details: Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and Bruce Oxenford (Australia) Television umpire: C.K. Nandan (India) Match referee: Jeff Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire: Anil Chaudhary (India)