"Keeper Clueless, Bowler Livid": How Comedy Of Errors Helped KL Rahul Score A Brilliant Ton vs South Africa

KL Rahul played one pf the most memorable innings by an Indian batter in South Africa on Wednesday as the side put up a decent 245 in the first innings of the first Test in Centurion. The batter almost waged a lone battle scoring 101, while the next best individual score was 38 by Virat Kohli. Battling lean patch in Tests for a while, KL made a comeback playing on a tough Centurion surface, coming to the crease at 92/4, the middle-order batter batted for most of his knock with lower middle-order/lower-order batters to register a memorable comeback ton.

He scored 101 in 137 balls, with 14 fours and four sixes, striking at a strike rate of over 75. KL Rahul, for the latter part of his innings, stitched crucial stands with the tail-enders. At one point of time it looked like KL Rahul would not be able to reach the century mark with India losing its ninth wicket in the 66th over by Gerald Coetzee. Prasidh Krishna then came on to the crease and South Africa had a chance for a run out on the third ball.

However, South Africa wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne missed the run out chance as he threw the ball, which had slid down the leg side, towards the slip fielder rather than throwing it at the stumps with KL Rahul running towards the striker's end. In that very over, KL Rahu hit a six to reach the century mark. Had he or Krishna been run out, the batter would have been able to score a ton.  "And this was the moment we will remember for a while. KL Rahul showing great awareness. The keeper is clueless, the bowler understandably livid," Sanjay Manjrekar said while commentating on Star Sports.

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Now, KL has become the first visiting batter to score multiple hundreds at Centurion, with his