Watch: Ravindra Jadeja sends Faf du Plessis back for a duck

Published - 04 Dec 2015, 19:32 IST | Updated - 04 Dec 2015, 19:32 IST

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Watch: Ravindra Jadeja sends Faf du Plessis back for a duck: India is certainly on the top in the 4^th and final Test of the series at Kotla. In reply to India’s 334 runs in the first innings, South African batting saw yet another collapse as they bundled out for 121. The chief destroyer being the spin again, but it was not Ashwin this time; rather it was the left-arm spin of Ravindra Jadeja.

As soon as Jadeja was brought into the attack, he got a vicious turn on the very first ball that he bowled. He soon removed opener Bavuma and couple of overs later, he got rid of South Africa captain Hashim Amla. But the best was yet to come. Jadeja bowled a very ordinary delivery, simply rolling his arm over, but still managed to get a wicket. His victim was Faf du Plessis, who has been struggling against the Saurashtra bowler in the series.

Du Plessis had another duck to his name. He bent down low for a paddled scoop, the ball was fairly well flighted by Jadeja but ended up just chipping it in the air off the bottom of the bat. The ball lobbed up to where a leg-slip would have been. Rahane, who was positioned at the slips went running as the ball stayed in the air long enough for Rahane to move across from his position at slip and grabbed it easily.

Incidentally, this was the third duck of this Test series from 6 innings so far for the South African ODI skipper, Faf du Plessis. Also, this was the third time that Ravindra Jadeja got du Plessis out in this series. He seems to have found his bunny.