Strays down the leg side, Elgar flicks this nicely towards the backward square leg region for a boundary.
The spinners, Ashwin and Jadeja were on target from the word go and picked up three wickets among them.Ashwin and Jadeja back bowling in tandem here, Elgar and de Bruyn looking comfortable at the moment but the lights are already on here! Can he dig in & do well here? He does pick up a quick couple of runs towards the end of the over, but there haven't been the big hits that he'd like. He too looked assured at the crease and played his shots.Early into the afternoon session, he brought up his half century with a six over extra cover off Keshav Maharaj.Clouds gathered over the stadium towards the end of the session and thunderstorms forced the umpires to take the tea break slightly early.Expecting the pitch to turn, South Africa picked three spinners in Maharaj, Piedt and Muthusamy.All eyes were expectedly on Rohit whose stop-start Test career has taken a new direction with the management accommodating him at the top of the order.What worked for Rohit was standing outside the crease when Philander was bowling to negate any little swing that was available.After getting the measure of the surface, Rohit went for his strokes like he does in white-ball cricket.Rohit completed his 11th Test half-century towards the end of the session when he mistimed a sweep but fortunately it was not in the reach of the fielder and went for a four.Getting to his fifty opened the shackles for Rohit and he scored at a brisk rate thereafter.He hammered off-spinner Danie Piedt for successive sixes over deep midwicket to get into the nineties before completing his fourth Test ton with a single off debutant spinner Senuran Muthusamy. If you miss, you get dismissed. The umpires have a customary chat and then refer it upstairs with the soft signal as OUT. Ashwin and Jadeja bowling in tandem from the third over, pitch is also certainly offering something for the tweakers!Shami begins with a maiden from the other end, South African openers will be looking to survive the day here and bat till stumps without much damage!Back for the South African innings.
Mitchell looks to flick but is beaten by pace. Beautifully tossed up around off, Williamson takes the gamble of going after the chinaman. First wicket for Kuldeep and he has got the trump card.
Hanuma Vihari and Jadeja now in the middle with tea approaching fast.
K Yadav to L Ferguson, OUT!
What a catch! A slight confusion but Wriddhiman Saha has caught this one as it is confirmed by the replays.Ashwin gets his second wicket as de Bruyn gets a thin inside edge which is taken neatly by the keeper!WICKET! Piedt finally has something to smile about. This is Shami's 56th ODI. That is exactly what has happened here. Kohli now turns to his pacers for one final burst before the end of play.Theunis de Bruyn has come out to join Dean Elgar here, he gets off the mark with a boundary but India certainly going through the overs quickly here.