Bhajji, Zaheer script South Africa's late collapse

Tapan Mohanta
Kolkata, Feb 14 (PTI) Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh
combined to rip through South Africa's middle order as India
staged a dramatic late comeback to reduce the visitors to 266
for nine on the opening day of their second and final cricket
Test here Sunday.

It was a stunning collapse for the Proteas, who were at
one stage cruising along courtesy fluent centuries by debutant
Alviro Petersen (100) and Hashim Amla (114).
At stumps, Wayne Parnell (2) and Morne Morkel (3) were at
the crease for South Africa when play was called off early due
to bad light.
The South Africans went into tea break at 228 for two but
in a stunning reversal of fortunes, the so-far-off-colour
Harbhajan picked up three wickets in the space of two overs to
wreck the the visiting line-up.
The off-spinner ended the day with figures of 23-2-63-3.
Pace speahead Zaheer also picked up three wickets conceding 77
runs in his 21 overs.
Ishant Sharma too struck form and though he had just one
wicket to show, the pace he generated in the final session
rattled the visiting batsmen.
Earlier, 29-year-old Petersen slammed a hundred on debut,
while last match's double centurion Amla continued from where
he had left off, scoring his ninth Test ton. More PTI TAP
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