Rickelton punished Mohammed Siraj’s width with three boundaries, while Markram blossomed after a watchful start, unfurling elegant strokes off the front and back foot before launching left-arm spinner Axar Patel for a six over wide long-on.
Though Alick Athanaze (38) and Justin Greaves (25) offered brief resistance via a 46-run stand, it wasn’t surely enough as they were bowled out for 45.1 overs in their second innings.
Resuming the day at 121/2, KL Rahul and skipper Shubman Gill continued tormenting the inexperienced West Indies attack, as the duo barely broke a sweat before carrying India past the West Indies' first-innings total of 162 by drinks.
England rode a match-winning century from Ben Duckett and more importantly, his 188-run opening partnership with Zak Crawley that set the tone of the chase of a mammoth 371 before Joe Root’s experience guided them over the line.
The missile was launched from a mobile articulated launcher, achieving all primary mission objectives.
While Gambhir is hopeful of Rohit’s availability, he is also happy with the options — both from an opening and leadership standpoint, in case Rohit doesn’t make it.
It has been learnt that Kohli had asked for a break for a couple of days from the Indian team management to return to India, and has therefore missed the ongoing three-day intra-squad game in Pretoria’s Tuks Oval.
Iyer reached the milestone with two runs through point off pacer Kyle Jamieson. Before Iyer, his fellow Mumbaikar Prithvi Shaw was the last India batter to register a century on Test debut in 2018, scoring 134 against West Indies in Rajkot.
Tom Latham was the top scorer of New Zealand's second innings with 36 while Ross Taylor scored 33.
South African bowlers dashed all Indian hopes to the ground as they bowled out the entire team for 135 runs…
