India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Harmer dismantles IND with four-fer as SA win by 30 runs

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: 5 runs in this over, including a four for Sundar (17*). He and Jurel (13*) are building a nice partnership here!

IND – 31/2 (11), Target – 124

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Two fours in this over by Jurel, takes on Bosch. Also a caught out behind appeal, which Jurel reviewed and there was no bat involved! 9 runs in this over in total!

IND – 25/2 (9), Target – 124

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: LBW CALL! Maharaj tosses it up, Jurel is beaten on the inside edge. He is hit in front of middle and leg, on the pad. DRS and UltraEdge shows that it was missing the wickets.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: The post-Lunch session begins! Sundar (5*) and Jurel (4*) return to resume batting for India. India need 114 runs, with 7 wickets in hand.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: The first session saw 60 runs and two wickets. It is also a nine-wicket inning for India as Gill is out due to injury. India need 114 runs.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: The umpire calls for Lunch now! The umpire takes the bails off! Sundar (5*) and Jurel (4*) are unbeaten for India.

IND – 10/2 (7), Target – 124

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: A length delivery by Jansen, on off. Sundar is rotted in the crease, gets a thick edge to the right of gully, four! Ends the over with a streak of dots!

IND – 10/2 (5), Target – 124

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: ANOTHER ONE! THIS IS NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR INDIA!

Huge bounce from back of a length and Rahul tries to defend this delivery by Jansen. He outside edges it. Verreynne dives to his right and catches it!

Rahul c Verreynne b Jansen 1(6)

IND – 1/2 (2.1), Target – 124

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: EARLY BREAKTHROUGH! JANSEN STRIKES! A good length delivery in the channel and Jaiswal is stuck on the crease in defence. Outside edged to the wicketkeeper! OUT!!!

Jaiswal c Verreynne b Jansen 0 (4)

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Rahul and Jaiswal walk to the middle, and will open for India. Jansen to bowl the first over!

Target – 124

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: ALL OUT! Siraj sends it into the blockhole and hits Maharaj on the boot and ball tracking shows it was hitting middle! ALL OUT!

Maharaj lbw b Siraj 0(3)

SA – 153 (54), lead by 123 runs

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: A good delivery by Siraj, angled in and nips back. Harmer thought of leaving it, and it hist the off stump! OUT!

Harmer b Siraj 7 (20)

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: LBW CALL! A wobble delivery by Siraj, with backspin. It is around off and on length. It beats Bavuma’s flick and hits him on the pad. GIVEN! Bavuma reviews! It was missing leg!

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: The 50th over begins with two dots and then Bavuma guides Bumrah for a four, to fine leg and also gets his 26th Test fifty! The over ends with a dot and then back-to-back singles.

SA – 144/8 (50), lead by 114 runs

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: OUT! FINALLY! Bumrah sends it on length, nips bcak and goes past Bosch, hits the off stump! OUT!!!! Magic ball from Bumrah!

Bosch b Bumrah 25 (37)

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Bumrah is being introduced now. He begins with a good length delivery and Bavuma flicks it behind on the on-side. Kuldeep slides to prevent a boundary! Two runs! Ends the over with a streak of dots and a single in the final ball.

SA – 123/7 (44), lead by 93 runs

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: BIG LBW CALL! India review! Bavuma was going for the sweep and was hit on the back thigh! No bat involved and ultraedge shows that it was pitching outside leg! Continues with onfield call!

Ends the over with two singles and a dot.

SA – 109/7 (41), lead by 79 runs

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: The 39th over begins with two dots and then Bavuma takes a single, followed by Jadeja getting a dot. Then Jadeja sends it loose, Bosch sweeps him to deep square leg for a four! Ends the over with a dot.

SA – 104/7 (39), lead by 74 runs

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Three runs conceded in the 36th over of the second innings. Axar keeps it tight. Bavuma (30*) and Bosch (3*) will look to add more runs to the total.

SA – 96/7 (36), lead by 66 runs

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Stay tuned folks! The first session is coming up! It is scheduled for 9:30 AM IST.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Speaking after Day 2, Morkel said, “Gill is a very fit guy, he looks after himself very well. So, it’s just unfortunate this morning that he woke up with a stiff neck and that carried him into the day, which was crucial for us. Another sort of partnership with him batting around was going to be needed for us at the time and just bad timing.”

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: From one end it feels like it’s going straight, but from the other end everything is happen. Have to play attacking cricket as a batter. Have to convert loose balls and keep an attacking mindset. Can’t have a defensive mindset because you’re never in. When you know there’s something in it for the bowlers, you can get carried away by the thought of bowling some magic balls. Patience is key. If we can keep them under 125, it should be chaseable.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: India will look to keep SA under 100 as it will get tougher to bat on the surface now. The effect of the roller might mean that it will be a little bit easier to bat for the first few overs.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Jansen’s wicket was the final wicket lost on Day 2 as the South African fell to Kuldeep. It looked like he would stay with Bavuma ,but a wrong’un saw him top-edging Kuldeep on the slogsweep and Rahul caught it at slips. It was Kuldeep’s second wicket and he was also in good form.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Responding to Finch on X, Ashwin wrote, «Hey Finchy, Bavuma clearly showed that this pitch was manageable with his sound defensive technique, defending on top of the bounce and not picking length as a batter is recipe for disaster».

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: The Eden Gardens pitch has been receiving criticism. Initially, it looked like a normal subcontinent track, good for batting for the first two days. But then the top surface began to come off on Day 1 itself. On Day 2, it was almost unplayable, as fast bowlers contributed to the fall of 11 of the 26 wickets.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: On Day 2, Jadeja scripted history, becoming only the fourth player in cricket history to register the double of 4000 runs and 300 wickets in Test cricket. He is also the second Indian to reach the milestone, after Kapil Dev.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Bavuma is the only SA batter to get to 20s. Four batters ot single-digit scores, and the rest got scores below 13. Huge day ahead for both India and South Africa. The Indian bowlers will look to remove the remaining batters fast. Meanwhile, Bavuma and Bosch will look to frustrate India.

India vs South Africa Live Score, 1st Test Day 3: Hello and welcome everyone, to our live coverage of Day 3 of the ongoing opening IND vs SA Test. The visitors only lead by 63 runs in what is turning out to be an impossible track to bat on. Bavuma (29*) has been the only batter, who has showed that he can bat in this track. He will look to stage a comeback for the visitors today.