Third Test, Cape Town (day one, close):
South Africa 232-4 v India scorecard
Venue: Newlands Dates: 2-6 January Start time: 0830 GMT Coverage: Live on Sky Sports 2; reports and scorecards on BBC Sport website
 Kallis played his usual shrewd mix of attack and solid defence |
Jacques Kallis struck an unbeaten 81 as South Africa made 232-4 on day one of the deciding third Test against India. On a cloudy morning in Cape Town, India put South Africa into bat and Zaheer Khan trapped skipper Graeme Smith lbw for six in the seventh over of the day. Alviro Petersen fell for 21 but Hashim Amla hit nine fours and a six in 59. As the sun came out in the afternoon Kallis hit his ninth fifty at Newlands with a 169-ball vigil, sharing an unbroken 68 with Ashwell Prince (28). The series between Test cricket's top two teams is intriguingly poised at 1-1 after world number one side India won the second Test at Durban by 87 runs. India captain Mahendra Dhoni had won only one toss in the last 14 but when he called correctly on a pitch with green tinges it looked like being a key moment, and the wicket of Smith was taken in the nine overs possible before drizzle forced an early lunch. Zaheer had cleverly sent a series of deliveries swinging away from the left-hander when one went straight on to trap Smith on the back pad, the 11th time he has fallen to the left-arm seamer in 23 international innings.  | 606: DEBATE |
Petersen, who hit two boundaries in the second over of the match, was caught behind driving at a good one from Ishant Sharma that moved away off the seam, before there was another short delay, this time for bad light. Amla clipped three fours off Zaheer in the first over after the resumption and later hooked Sreesanth for six, but after recording his 19th Test fifty he attempted a similar shot and top-edged the India paceman straight to deep mid-wicket. Sreesanth later produced a fine delivery with more away movement that caught the edge of AB de Villiers as he drove, giving a simple catch to Dhoni behind the stumps. It was to prove the final success of the day for India, however, as the pitch flattened out in the brighter conditions and Kallis dug in with the equally obdurate left-hander Prince. Kallis, playing his 145th Test, has now made 55 half centuries and is within 19 runs of a 39th hundred which would put him level with Ricky Ponting, second in the all-time list.
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