India Vs South Africa Live Cricket Score, 1st Test Match Day 2: IND Begin Pursuit; KL Rahul Scores 4000 Runs

KL Rahul has become the 18th Indian batter to score 4000 red-ball runs with the four he scored off Marco Jansen in the day's first over. It took him 115 innings to reach 4K runs, becoming the 3rd slowest batter to get there after former captains Kapil Dev (138 inn) and MS Dhoni (116 inn).

Jansen's outside off stump delivery takes an edge off KL Rahul and the ball runs down the slips and the gully fielder for a four. First runs of the day for India.

Kagiso Rabada has rung the iconic bell at the Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata to start the day 2 proceedings of the 1st Test match. KL Rahul (13*) will face the first ball off Marco Jansen as India trail by 122 runs. Jansen bowls a good length delivery and it has been punched down by Rahul.

Jasprit Bumrah - 99 wickets in 20 matches

Mohammed Siraj - 74 wickets in 22 matches

Shoaib Bashir - 68 wickets in 19 matches

Matt Henry - 64 wickets in 11 matches

Gus Atkinson - 63 wickets in 13 matches

Ravindra Jadeja - 63 wickets in 21 matches

Prabath Jayasuriya - 63 wickets in 13 matches

Dinesh Karthik and Shaun Pollock have reported that spinners will have a massive role to play for South Africa on day 2.

Pollock believes that it were the cracks and the uneven bounce that helped the Indian bowlers yesterday and it will continue to play a part as the game goes on.

Karthik, on the other hand, claimed that it will be a tough task for the Indian batters to come in and play against spin, which is going to be prevalent today.

DK's piece of advice to the Proteas bowlers - "My advice to South African pacers would be to keep it on the stumps. That's what Bumrah did."

Over the next few days, Indian skipper Shubman Gill needs only one century to break the record of most centuries by an Indian Test captain in a calendar year. He is currently level with Virat Kohli, who had also scored 5 Test match hundreds during the 2017 and 2018 season.

Live streaming of the India vs South Africa Test series will be available on the JioHotstar app and website, while television coverage will be shown live on the Star Sports Network in India.

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of our live blog! There’s nothing more refreshing than following a Test match ball by ball. Stay tuned for live updates from India vs South Africa.