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Rahul-Mayank pair created history in South Africa, left behind Gambhir-Sehwag pair

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IND vs SA Test Match: The last match of the three-Test series between India and South Africa is being played at Newlands Cricket Stadium, Cape Town. Batting first, Team India scored 223 runs in the first innings. Team India’s opening pair could not do anything special this time and only after 31 runs partnership, India got the first blow. However, despite this, the opening pair of Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul made a special record in their name.

The opening pair of Mayank and Rahul have so far scored more than 200 runs in South Africa in Test cricket. This is the first Indian opening pair to reach this milestone. That is, this opening pair of both has now reached the top of the Indian pairs with the highest run partnership in South Africa. Earlier, the pair of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir was at the top. Gambhir and Sehwag have the record of opening partnership of 184 runs in 4 matches in South Africa.

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On this tour of South Africa, the performance of the pair of Rahul and Mayank has been good. Both also had a century partnership in the first Test match of the series played at Centurion. After the first innings of the third Test, the opening partnership of 220 runs in 5 matches between the two has been done in South Africa.

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South Africa were heavy on day one in Cape Town Test
On the first day of the third and last Test of the series, the Indian innings was reduced to 223 runs. Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada took 4 more and Marco Jansson took 3 wickets. Captain Virat Kohli was the only player to reach 50. Kohli played an innings of 79 runs. The good thing for India was that before the end of the first day’s play, South Africa also lost their one wicket. Captain Dean Elgar became the victim of Jasprit Bumrah after scoring 3 runs. South Africa scored 17 runs for one wicket till stumps.

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