#2 India lose three in quick succession

Chasing 250+ was never going to be easy at Centurion. Add a fearsome four-prong attack and a pitch with uneven bounce and you have a recipe for a collapse. Murali Vijay and Lokesh Rahul appeared solid in the early few overs before Kagiso Rabada, handed the new ball by his skipper, justified the call with a ball that kept low and took Vijay's inside edge onto the stumps.
Rahul was next, playing a nothing shot off Lungi Ngidi's first ball and gifting a catch to point. At 16/2, it was all up to the Indian skipper, the hero of the first innings, to resuscitate India. But there were no heroics from him as Ngidi, who nearly trapped him LBW in the first innings, found success. He nipped one back into Kohli, who missed the flick and was plumb in front, with a review walking off with him.
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