In Centurion, KL Rahul from India and Dean Elgar from South Africa scored important centuries for their respective teams.

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By the end of the second day’s play, South Africa had scored 256 runs after losing five wickets in 66 overs.Experienced player Dean Elgar scored an excellent century for South Africa.

By the end of the second day’s play, South Africa had scored 256 runs after losing five wickets in 66 overs.

KL Rahul and Dean Elgar (Pic Source-Twitter)

Currently South Africa and India The first test match is being played at the SuperSport Park in Centurion. The play on the second day of this test match was ended early due to bad light. By the end of the second day’s play, South Africa had scored 256 runs after losing five wickets in 66 overs.

In this match, the Indian team scored 245 runs after losing all the wickets in its first innings. The best player of the team, KL Rahul played a valuable inning of 101 runs in 137 balls with the help of 14 fours and four sixes. He did not spare any of the South African bowlers and hit everyone hard.

Not only this, Virat Kohli contributed 38 runs while Shreyas Iyer played an excellent inning of 31 runs. For South Africa, Kagiso Rabada took 5 wickets for 59 runs in 20 overs while Nandre Burger took three wickets. Marco Jansen and Gerald Coetzee took 1 wicket each.

Experienced player Dean Elgar scored an excellent century for South Africa.

In reply, by the end of the second day’s play, South Africa had scored 256 runs after losing 5 wickets in 66 overs. For the host side, experienced batsman Dean Elgar played a brilliant inning of 140* runs in 211 balls with the help of 23 fours. Apart from Dean Elgar, Tony de Zorzi contributed 28 runs while David Bedingham played a valuable inning of 56 runs in 87 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. Marco Jansen has scored 3* runs in 13 balls by the end of the second day’s play.

For India, till now Jasprit Bumrah has taken two wickets for 48 runs in 16 overs while Mohammad Siraj has also taken two wickets. Prasidh Krishna has taken one wicket in his name. So far, South Africa has a lead of 11 runs over the Indian team.

Stumps on Day 2 🏏

Bad light forced play to be called off for the day, with South Africa leading with 11 runs.

Can India pull off things in their favor tomorrow?#SAvIND #SouthAfrica #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/6kPwTjGRyw

— OneCricket (@OneCricketApp) December 27, 2023

DAY 2 STUMPS: SA-256/5 (66)
ELGAR-140*
SA LEAD BY 11 RUNS

BUMRAH- 2/48 (16)
SIRAJ – 2/63 (15)

Tomorrow we will come back stronger#SAvIND #RohitSharma #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/8gecYBAFtY

— Gaurav Fighter (@GauravHrithiks) December 27, 2023

And it’s Stumps on Day 2 at Centurion, with bad light forcing the umpires to call off play

South Africa 🇿🇦 end the day 11 runs ahead with five wickets in hand, thanks primarily to Dean Elgar’s (140*) heroic ton.#SAvIND

Day 2 Recap: https://t.co/IYEqOXYxkx

— Firstpost Sports (@FirstpostSports) December 27, 2023

A supremely stupendous day for the hosts as they end Day 2 on 256-5, leading by 11

A truly magnificent knock from Dean Elgar, who will start tomorrow on 140* #SAvIND

—ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA) December 27, 2023

Day 2 Stumps 🏏

South Africa takes a lead of 11 runs with five wickets still in hand.

Dean Elgar unbeaten at 140* 👏🏻#DeanElgar #SAvIND #Cricket #Sportskeeda pic.twitter.com/hJWaveSXEK

— Sportskeeda (@Sportskeeda) December 27, 2023

MAIDEN TEST WICKET
for #prasidhkrishna,
Big moment for him!
come on #India #SAvIND #INDvSA #INDvsSA pic.twitter.com/0I08QHybPc

— BlueCap 🇮🇳 (@IndianzCricket) December 27, 2023

India fought back with couple of wickets in the final hour’s play to stay in the contest despite a lackluster show with the ball for most of the day.

An interesting day 3 in the offing with Dean Elgar still going strong.#SAvIND pic.twitter.com/vWTNpkykci

— Circle of Cricket (@circleofcricket) December 27, 2023

Hope this Dean Elgar innings not cost the series.
Brilliant batting👏#INDvSA #SAvsIND

— Sports Geeez (@Sportsgeeez) December 27, 2023

Dean Elgar’s unbeaten ton has put South Africa in the driving seat in Centurion 👏

#SAvIND pic.twitter.com/XleAagqK3J

— Naseer Ch🇵🇰 (@naseerch36) December 27, 2023