India-A vs South Africa-A: Rain plays spoilsport, match ends in a draw

India-A vs South Africa-A 1st Unofficial Test: The 1st unofficial Test between India A and South Africa A ended in a draw after rain played spoilsport on Day 4. India looked good on Day 3 with skipper Priyank Panchal and Abhimanyu Easwaran slamming 96 and century respectively. The duo shared a partnership of 142 runs for the second wicket and took India A to 308/4. On Day 4, India’s innings trail by just 201 odd runs but with no play on the final day, the officials declared it to end in a draw. Follow Insidesport.in for all India A vs South Africa A Live updates.

Earlier, opting to bat, South Africa posted a landmark total of 509/7on the back of centuries from skipper P Malan & Tony de Zorzi. In response to the hosts’ 509 for seven declared, India A had reached 308 for four at stumps on day three.

India-A vs South Africa-A: Rain plays spoilsport as India A’s match ends in a draw

Abhimanyu Easwaran compiled a solid hundred in the game but skipper Priyank Panchal missed out on one by only four runs. The bowlers struggled with the hosts piling on the runs.

Hanumar Vihari, who was controversially dropped for the home series against New Zealand, made 25 off 53 balls. Another Indian player Prithvi Shaw scored a fine 48 but would have been disappointed to miss out on a hundred in good batting conditions.

The second match of the three-match series will be played from November 29 at the same venue.

India A Innings:

BATTING		R	B	4s	6s	SR
Prithvi Shaw	c †Qeshile b Sipamla	48	45	9	0	106.66
Priyank Panchal (c)	lbw b Linde	96	171	14	0	56.14
Abhimanyu Easwaran	c Erwee b Sipamla	103	209	16	0	49.28
Hanuma Vihari	c †Qeshile b Linde	25	53	6	0	47.16
Baba Aparajith	not out	19	61	4	0	31.14
Upendra Yadav †	not out	5	29	1	0	17.24
Extras	(b 1, lb 2, nb 9)	12
TOTAL	(93.1 Ov, RR: 3.30)	308/4
Did not bat: Krishnappa Gowtham, Rahul Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Umran Malik
Fall of wickets: 1-80 (Prithvi Shaw, 13.5 ov), 2-222 (Priyank Panchal, 58.1 ov), 3-264 (Hanuma Vihari, 72.6 ov), 4-294 (Abhimanyu Easwaran, 83.3 ov)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON	NB
Beuran Hendricks	15	3	42	0	2.80	2
Glenton Stuurman	19	3	91	0	4.78	5
Marco Jansen	19	8	44	0	2.31	2
Lutho Sipamla	18.1	7	73	2	4.01	0
George Linde	16	5	32	2	2.00	0
Jason Smith	6	0	23	0	3.83	0

South Africa A Innings:

BATTING		R	B	4s	6s	SR
Sarel Erwee	c Gowtham b Saini	0	3	0	0	0.00
Pieter Malan (c)	c †Yadav b Saini	163	282	19	0	57.80
Raynard van Tonder	lbw b Nagwaswalla	0	9	0	0	0.00
Tony de Zorzi	b Umran Malik	117	186	18	0	62.90
Jason Smith	c Aparajith b Nagwaswalla	52	108	4	1	48.14
Sinethemba Qeshile †	not out	82	112	10	2	73.21
George Linde	st †Yadav b Chahar	51	80	9	0	63.75
Marco Jansen	run out (Shaw)	17	21	2	0	80.95
Lutho Sipamla	not out	5	17	0	0	29.41
Extras	(lb 14, nb 5, w 3)	22
TOTAL	(135.3 Ov, RR: 3.75)	509/7d
Did not bat: Beuran Hendricks, Glenton Stuurman
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Sarel Erwee, 0.3 ov), 2-14 (Raynard van Tonder, 3.3 ov), 3-231 (Tony de Zorzi, 60.4 ov), 4-350 (Jason Smith, 97.1 ov), 5-350 (Pieter Malan, 98.1 ov), 6-452 (George Linde, 125.3 ov), 7-487 (Marco Jansen, 131.1 ov)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON	WD	NB
Navdeep Saini	23	7	67	2	2.91	1	0
Arzan Nagwaswalla	23	4	75	2	3.26	0	4
Umran Malik	21	2	90	1	4.28	2	0
Krishnappa Gowtham	30	5	98	0	3.26	0	0
Rahul Chahar	28.3	0	125	1	4.38	0	1
Baba Aparajith	10	0	40	0	4.00	0	0

India A Squad: Priyank Panchal (capt), Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Sarfaraz Khan, B Aparajith, Upendra Yadav (wk), K Gowtham, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Umran Malik, Ishan Porel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Ishan Kishan (wk), Deepak Chahar

South Africa A squad: Pieter Malan (c), Sarel Erwee, Edward Moore, Raynard van Tonder, Sinethemba Qeshile, Senuran Muthusamy, Marco Jansen, Migael Pretorius, Beuran Hendricks, Lutho Sipamla, Glenton Stuurman, George Linde, Jason Smith, Tony de Zorzi.

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