India v South Africa, 1st Test Day 1: Rohit Sharma's unbeaten Century

Vishakhapatnam: Team India's newest opening pair Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal stiched an unbeaten partnership of 202. Rohit Sharma smashed an unbeaten century in his new role as a Test opener. India cruse to 202 for no loss at tea on the first day of their opening Test against South Africa. Until rain started pouring and played the spoilsport.

All smiles as Rohit Sharma brings up his maiden hundred as Test opener

All the questions, all the hype, all the speculations around Rohit Sharma as Test opener were looming once the Indian Test squad for the home series were announced. Rohit Sharma answered all the questions like he does in his role as white ball opener. We all saw the shear brilliance of a guy who has mastered how pace his innings in white ball replicate the same in red ball cricket.

India Captain Virat Kohli won the toss earlier and chose to bat first and all eyes were on the new opener Rohit Sharma. It was not a fluent start by any means as the ball did the talking in the initial period with some swing on offer thanks to the overcast conditions. 

Rabada and Philander made good use of the conditions beating both the opener's outside the off stump on many occasions. 

Rohit Sharma, playing his first match as opener followed his usual approach as he does in white ball cricket. He saw through the new ball and respected the conditions. As soon as India opener's saw through the initial period, runs started flowing. Rohit Sharma took on the South African spinners as he struck his maiden century as India opener. In his unbeaten knock of 115 he hit 12 fours and 5 sixes and didn't let the bowlers to settle in.

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Rohit-Mayank celebrates an unbeaten 200 partnership

Mayank Agarwal played in the shadow of Rohit Sharma remaining unbeaten on 84 as the rain played spoilsport and the day was concluded with no further action.

The match will resume on the second day tomorrow with Team India in the driver's seat and will hope to post a big score with all the wickets still intact. While Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal will look to continue their good form and score as many as possible.