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    "excerpt": "Pune, Oct 12\u00a0 Indian bowlers continued with their dominant performance by picking up three wickets in the morning session on Day 3 to help the hosts extended their control in the ongoing second Test ",
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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Pune, Oct 12&nbsp;<\/strong> Indian bowlers continued with their dominant performance by picking up three wickets in the morning session on Day 3 to help the hosts extended their control in the ongoing second Test against South Africa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>At Lunch on Saturday, the Proteas scoreline read 136\/6, having Faf du Plessis and Senuran Muthusamy batting on 52 and 6 respectively, at the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium. The visitors still trail by 465 runs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Starting the day at 36\/3, South Africa lost both their overnight batsmen Anrich Nortje (3) and Theunis de Bruyn (30) in the first hour of the play.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Nortje, who came in as a night-watchman on Friday evening, was the first wicket to fall as he was caught brilliantly at fourth slip by Virat Kohli off the bowling of Mohammed Shami.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Three overs later, de Bruyn played a loose shot and in the process got a thick-outside edge against Umesh Yadav. Wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha dived to his right and took a stunning catch to end de Bruyn&#39;s inning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Quinton de Kock and du Plessis then tried to steady the ship for the visitors and shared a crucial 58-run stand before de Kock was bowled by ace off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin at his individual score of 31.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Muthusamy then joined forces with his skipper and made sure their team didn&#39;t lose any further wickets till the end of the session. In the process, du Plessis also reached the 50-run mark and is looking good to get a big one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Earlier on Day 2, India had declared their first innings for 601\/5 with Virat Kohli (254*), Mayank Agarwal (108) and Ravindra Jadeja (91) being the chief contributors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Brief scores:<\/strong> 1st innings: India 601\/5d; South Africa 136\/6 (Faf du Plessis 52 batting, Quinton de Kock 31; Umesh Yadav 3\/27).<\/p>\r\n",
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