'Big Man of the Big Occassion'; proving the quite true, Virat Kohli played a fighting knock of 76 off 59 balls and pushed Team India's total to 176 runs. Having lost back-to-back wickets of Rohit Sharma and Rishabh Pant, Virat Kohli stayed until the 18th over of the match. Axar Patel was sent at number 5 and he too impressed everyone with the bat. Axar played a vital knock of 47 runs off 31 balls with the help of four sixes and one boundary. On the other hand, Virat Kohli scored 76 runs with the help of six boundaries and two sixes.
For South Africa, Keshav Maharaj picked up two crucial wickets of Rohit Sharma and Rishabh Pant. In the final over of the first innings, Anrich Nortje took 2 wickets and dismissed Shivam Dubey and Ravindra Jadeja.
(Second innings is yet to start)