Kumble's spin upsets South African rhythm
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Your support makes all the difference.The leg-spinner Anil Kumble and the medium-pace bowler Javagal Srinath exploited an uneven pitch to bowl out South Africa for 177 in their first innings, giving India a 60-run lead on the second day of the third Test in Kanpur yesterday.
Kumble claimed 4 for 71 and Srinath 3 for 42 as South Africa chased India's first innings of 237. Fanie de Villiers struck back to claim Woorkeri Raman lbw for 2 and leave India 7 for 1 at the close.
South Africa were cruising at 121 for 3 before a middle-order collapse, when they lost four wickets in the space of 30 balls and 10 runs. Kumble engineered it, claiming the wickets of Daryll Cullinan and Hansie Cronje.
Second day; India won toss
INDIA - First Innings
(Overnight: 204 for 6)
*S R Tendulkar c De Villiers b Adams 61
A Kumble b Cronje 5
A R Kapoor c De Villiers b Adams 11
J Srinath c and b Adams 0
B K V Prasad not out 1
Extras (b3 lb6 nb1) 10
Total (100.1 overs) 237
Fall (cont): 7-214 8-224 9-224.
Bowling: De Villiers 15-7-18-0; Klusener 17-4-47-0 (1nb); Symcox 21-5- 57-0; McMillan 18-7-40-2; Adams 19.1-6-55-6; Cronje 10-5-11-2.
SOUTH AFRICA - First Innings
A C Hudson lbw b Kumble 15
G Kirsten c Raman b Kapoor 43
H H Gibbs b Kapoor 17
D J Cullinan c Azharuddin b Kumble 29
*W J Cronje c sub (Laxman) b Kumble 15
B M McMillan b Srinath 1
D J Richardson b Srinath 4
L Klusener c Dravid b Srinath 9
P L Symcox not out 23
P S de Villiers lbw b Kumble 6
P R Adams run out 8
Extras (b4 lb3) 7
Total (72.3 overs) 177
Fall: 1-34 2-73 3-94 4-121 5-126 6-130 7-131 8-144 9-163.
Bowling: Srinath 16-7-42-3; Prasad 14-5-25-0; Kumble 27-2-71-4; Kapoor 8-2-19-2; Joshi 7.3-2-13-0.
INDIA - Second Innings
W V Raman lbw b De Villiers 2
N R Mongia not out 4
A Kumble not out 0
Extras (lb1) 1
Total (for 1, 4 overs) 7
Fall: 1-2.
Bowling: De Villiers 2-1-2-1; Klusener 2-0-4-0.
Umpires: S Venkataraghavan (Ind) and D R Shepherd (Eng).
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