Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa, 4th Test, Day 1, Delhi
India, having already won the series, will look to make it a historic one by winning the fourth and final Test against South Africa at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi. Catch all the live cricket score and live cricket updates from the India vs South Africa 4th Test here
Live Cricket Scorecard: India vs South Africa
Build Up
Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa, 3rd Test, Day 1: Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan at practice at the Kotla stadium. (Source: PTI)
In June, when Virat Kohli embarked on his first tour as India’s full-time Test captain — to Bangladesh — he made it clear he wanted his team to realign its focus from process to result. With each series, his commitment towards this philosophy seems to have only grown. While Hashim Amla talks about need of winning or losing honourably. Kohli, on the other hand, stresses that winning is the ultimate thing. Often, he seems to suggest it’s the only thing. He wants the team to be ruthless. “We are not satisfied with winning the series 2-0…we want to make it 3-0,” he said ahead of the fourth and final Test against South Africa.
‘Results don’t justify our preparation’
Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa, 4th Test Day 1: South Africa captain Hashim Amla. (Source: Reuters)
The South Africans are known to be unfussy travellers and that’s seen as the reason for their long unbeaten away streak. They aren’t the complaining kind. Even a day after the ICC called the Nagpur track “poor”, the touring captain Hashim Amla didn’t really join the pitch debate. “Whatever has happened in Nagpur has happened…it’s end of the story. Whatever the ICC says, we will leave it at that. The important thing is to finish this tour with a win,” he says ahead of the final Test in Delhi.
We want to be ruthless, says Virat Kohli
Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa, 4th Test, Day 1: Virat Kohli during a practice session ahead of the fourth and final Test against South Africa. (Source: PTI)
Not content with an unassailable lead in the four-match series, home captain Virat Kohli promised India will be “ruthless” against South Africa in the final match beginning at the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium on Thursday.
Exploiting their home advantage, India beat South Africa inside three days both in Mohali and Nagpur, while also dominating the rained-out second Test in Bangalore.
