cricket-2nd test at kolkata

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oh!what a match is going on!the first two sessions really belong to south africa but what an amazing come back by indians-in the last session of the day. Harbhajan singh,the turbanator was at its very best. The earlier blows were given by Indian pace bowler Zaheer khan,by taking first three wickets including that of southafican captain Gream Smith,alongwith Hasim Amla who scored a wonderful century and another Petersen who joined the party with Amla also scoring a century on his debut. Hasim Amla could have been out earlier when he was just at 44 if v.v.s.laxman would not have dropped the catch at slip on harbhajan"s bowl it could have change the course of the match.Nothing less the indians came hard after tea and although southafrican's batted early really well it was an indian day. After the tea india took 7 wickets with harbhajan taking 3 and Zaheer, Ishant and Mishra a piece each. In my view Indians must have shown more intent at the begining of the Match only by bowling a lot of bouncers and a bit tight in the field, the Indians specially Ishant Sharma a bowl alot in the second sessions of the play, but by that time there was nothing left in the pitch for the fast bowlers by then, the morning wetnessand nip in the air had gone by then. At the end of the second sessions the proteas were well set to launch another high score and this bat the Indians out as they had done in the Nagpur test, but the Indians fought back very strongly by reducing South Africans to 266 for 9 at the end of the days play. Now it is left for the batsman to score a good run in their first innings and then bowlthem out. Indians have to do this to retain their 1st ranking in the tally of the test teams. I strongly believe this and I hope every Indian does.