In the first Test, Shreyas Iyer played a very beautiful shot on South African fast bowler Gerald Coetzee’s ball, forcing the commentators to say ‘beautiful’. The first Test between India and South Africa will be played at Centurion where Indian batsman Shreyas Iyer played an innings of 31 runs. During this innings, one shot from Iyer’s bat was seen.
The video of Iyer’s brilliant snap is becoming viral on social media. In the video, Coetzee can be seen throwing the ball towards the leg side, aiming at Iyer’s legs, after which the Indian batsman delivers a beautiful shot. As soon as the ball hit, Iyer flicked it.
Iyer played this shot on the first ball of the 25th over of the innings. During this time, Virat Kohli was present with him at the crease. Iyer was on his way to a good innings when Kagiso Rabada dismissed him in the 27th over. Iyer played an innings of 31 runs in 50 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six.
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At the end of the first day, the Indian team has scored 208 runs for 8 wickets. KL Rahul played the biggest innings of 70 runs for India in which he hit 10 fours and 2 sixes. At the end of the day, Rahul returned undefeated. Apart from Rahul, Mohammad Siraj also remained unbeaten till the end of the day. Siraj played 10 balls on the first day where he didn’t score any runs. Furthermore, Virat Kohli scored 38 runs and Shreyas Iyer scored 31 runs. While the rest of the Indian batsmen proved unsuccessful.
African bowlers dominated the first day. Right-arm fast bowler Kagiso Rabada took the maximum of 5 wickets. Apart from this, debutant Nandre Berger took two wickets. While Marco Yansen got 1 wicket.