IND Vs SA, 1st ODI: Kohli Century, Kuldeep's Four-fer Hands India Victory
Virat Kohli’s stupendous 52nd ODI hundred, Kuldeep Yadav’s left-arm wrist spin trickery and Harshit Rana’s pace laced India’s tense 17-run win over South Africa in the first match of the three-match series here on Sunday. India now lead the rubber 1-0, and the second match will be played at Raipur on Wednesday. Once Kohli’s 120-ball 135 (11x4, 7x6) guided India to a massive 349 for 8, South Africa failed to produce the Herculean batting effort needed for a tall chase, folding for 332.
India's Yashasvi Jaiswal plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Rohit Sharma plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Nandre Burger celebrates the wicket of India's Yashasvi Jaiswal during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli, right, and India's Rohit Sharma give the fist after scoring runs during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Rohit Sharma plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Rohit Sharma plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli, left, and India's Rohit Sharma chat during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Rohit Sharma celebrates his fifty runs during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli celebrates his fifty runs during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
Fans cheers after India's Virat Kohli score fifty runs during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Marco Jansen, centre, celebrates the wicket of India's Rohit Sharma during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli celebrates his century during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's captain KL Rahul plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's captain KL Rahul plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Ravindra Jadeja plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Corbin Bosch celebrates the wicket of India's Ravindra Jadeja during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Ryan Rickelton is bowled out by India's Harshit Rana during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Harshit Rana, left , celebrates the wicket of South Africa's Ryan Rickelton during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli, right, and India's Harshit Rana, left, celebrates the wicket of South Africa's Quinton de Kock , centre, during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Matthew Breetzke plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Tony de Zorzi plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Harshit Rana, centre, celebrates the wicket of South Africa's Dewald Brevis during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Dewald Brevis plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Kuldeep Yadav, centre, celebrates the wicket of South Africa's Tony de Zorzi during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Matthew Breetzke celebrates his fifty runs during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Marco Jansen plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Kuldeep Yadav celebrates the wicket of South Africa's Marco Jansen during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Kuldeep Yadav, left, and India's Rohit Sharma celebrates the wicket of South Africa's Matthew Breetzke during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Kuldeep Yadav, centre, celebrates the wicket of South Africa's Prenelan Subrayen during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Corbin Bosch plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
South Africa's Nandre Burger plays a shot during the first One Day International match between India and South Africa in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
India's Virat Kohli, right, shakes hands with South Africa's Corbin Bosch after India won the first One Day International match in Ranchi. | Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool
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