South Africa vs India 2018: 5 positives for India despite the loss

#2 Constant pressure applied

In the first innings, the match slipped away from the visitors when AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis managed to transfer the pressure on the bowlers as they were helped with a lot many boundary balls.

However, in the second innings, the Indian bowlers had sorted this issue and they made sure that there were no freebies were on offer and that even if the wickets did not trickle in, there was a plug on run flow.

This pressure helped as the hosts played few rash strokes and allowed the Indian bowlers a foothold and this resulted in them shooting South Africa for 130 in their second innings.