Virat Kohli trains at Wanderers, Johannesburg.
India beat South Africa in the first Test match in Centurion by 113 runs.
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Indian cricket team, after breaching Fortress Centurion, is off to a new venue—Wanderers, Johannesburg. The team started training at the venue of the second Test match. Earlier India beat South Africa by 113 runs in the first Test match. After celebrating the last day of 2021, Kohli and his men were back at the old ways on new year’s day as they were seen going through the paces in a new video shared by BCCI on social media.
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Earlier India ended a superb 2021 beating South Africa in Centurion. They started off the year with the win in Gabba. Earlier Kohli hailed his side for winning Centurion with a day to spare. Rainfall made sure no play was possible on day 2 effectively making this game a four day affair. India beat South Africa by 113 runs to take 1-0 lead in three-match series. India has never won in Centurion before. “Got off to the perfect start. Have to understand one day was washed out – shows how well we played. It’s always a difficult place to play against SA (Centurion). The discipline that the batters showed. Winning the toss, batting first overseas is a tough challenge.”
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Besides, KL Rahul, who scored a century, India were lead by its pacers—Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah. While the former went onto take a fifer, latter got India crucial breakthroughs in the second innings. Kohli added India were in ‘pole position’ after scoring more than 300 in the first innings. “Credit to Mayank and KL the way they set it up. We knew we were in pole position with anything over 300-320. Knew the bowlers will do the job. Spoke about it in the change room – the fact he didn’t bowl much in the first innings, it allowed SA to get around 40 more runs (Bumrah). Just the way these guys bowl together has been a hallmark of our team getting a result in difficult situations”
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