Star batter Virat Kohli was overlaying the swing nicely though he performed and missed usually till one ball moved away late to ship him again to the dressing room, a happy as punch Kagiso Rabada stated after getting his 14th five-wicket haul in Test cricket. India have been restricted to 208 for 8 in 59 overs by South Africa on a truncated first day of the opening Test at Supersport Park right here on Tuesday, and the awkward bounce grew to become the visiting crew batters’ undoing.

“It swung away late,” Rabada’s smile stated all in regards to the supply which deviated and took the skin fringe of Kohli’s bat even because the Indian tried to play for inswing.

“For some reason, most of the times he played and missed, he covered the channel. With him, you always need to be on. I was glad that I could get that fainty (faint edge),” Rabada stated.

There are days when the method that one follows provides immaculate outcomes. Rabad had one this present day.

“(Such) days happen in cricket. This was my day. Pretty happy with the way I bowled. India have quite a bit of experience and if anyone told us that it will be 208 for 8, we would have taken that before the game,” stated Proteas tempo spearhead.

He additionally praised KL Rahul‘s attritional batting.

“His (stroke-making) options were good, he defended well, always someone stands out and he was that batter today,” he added.

The Proteas pacers bowled 65 deliveries on the leg-stump channel with a leg slip in place throughout the first session.

“The two left-armers were in attack and were swinging the ball in. It seemed like a tactic after lunch. It was Temba (Bavuma), who had a gut feel about how to get wicket and did feel logical to keep leg slip.

We almost got Virat at square leg. After lunch, it was again a gut feel thing, after lunch, we changed tactics,” stated Rabada.