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All eyes were on the third and final Test between India and South Africa and fans and followers were anxiously waiting to see whether team India can manage to secure a first innings lead or not. Eventually, another sensational bowling display exhibited by Indian bowlers helped them to clinch an important first innings lead of 13 runs as South Africa were bowled out on Wednesday (January 12) after scoring 210 runs.
Challenging pace attack
Soutth Africa Keegan Petersen said that he feels Indian pace unit is the “most challenging” one he had faced in his career. In the first innings, Petersen scored 72 runs and helped his side in reaching a respectable total.
"It's (the Indian pace attack) extremely challenging. It's the most challenging I've had in my whole career. You have to be focused and on your mark all the time or else they will expose you," said Petersen in the press conference after the end of the day's play.
"They test you in terms of scoring, there's not much scoring opportunities. They have not given us much. They are arguably one of the best bowling attacks in the world. We knew that coming into the series, it's been challenging, we just got to deal with it," he added.
Opening batsmen not getting runs
South African opening pair failed to do something productive in the first innings as captain Dean Elgar was the first man to be dismissed after scoring just 3 runs. The other opening batsman, Aiden Markram could not do much either as he had depart adding only 8 more runs.
Regarding the opening pair’s poor batting show, the 28-year-old batsman feels that they are just “going through a rough time.”
"I like batting in at number three, I've batted there for most of my career. In terms of losing early wickets, we have two high-quality opening batters, they're just going through a rough time," Petersen said.
"Dean (Elgar) has come through and Aiden is going through a bit of a patch, but he is a quality player, we all know that he (Markram) will come through good eventually.
"I'm not fussed, I'll happy to be in the mix to play and if I can make number three mine, I'll be happy," he added.
At Stumps, the Virat Kohli-led team were at 57 for 2.
