Kumble's spin upsets South African rhythm

The leg-spinner Anil Kumble and the medium-pace bowler Javagal Srinath exploited an uneven pitch to bowl out South Africa for 177 in their first innings, giving India a 60-run lead on the second day of the third Test in Kanpur yesterday.

Kumble claimed 4 for 71 and Srinath 3 for 42 as South Africa chased India's first innings of 237. Fanie de Villiers struck back to claim Woorkeri Raman lbw for 2 and leave India 7 for 1 at the close.

South Africa were cruising at 121 for 3 before a middle-order collapse, when they lost four wickets in the space of 30 balls and 10 runs. Kumble engineered it, claiming the wickets of Daryll Cullinan and Hansie Cronje.

Second day; India won toss

INDIA - First Innings

(Overnight: 204 for 6)

*S R Tendulkar c De Villiers b Adams 61

A Kumble b Cronje 5

A R Kapoor c De Villiers b Adams 11

J Srinath c and b Adams 0

B K V Prasad not out 1

Extras (b3 lb6 nb1) 10

Total (100.1 overs) 237

Fall (cont): 7-214 8-224 9-224.

Bowling: De Villiers 15-7-18-0; Klusener 17-4-47-0 (1nb); Symcox 21-5- 57-0; McMillan 18-7-40-2; Adams 19.1-6-55-6; Cronje 10-5-11-2.

SOUTH AFRICA - First Innings

A C Hudson lbw b Kumble 15

G Kirsten c Raman b Kapoor 43

H H Gibbs b Kapoor 17

D J Cullinan c Azharuddin b Kumble 29

*W J Cronje c sub (Laxman) b Kumble 15

B M McMillan b Srinath 1

D J Richardson b Srinath 4

L Klusener c Dravid b Srinath 9

P L Symcox not out 23

P S de Villiers lbw b Kumble 6

P R Adams run out 8

Extras (b4 lb3) 7

Total (72.3 overs) 177

Fall: 1-34 2-73 3-94 4-121 5-126 6-130 7-131 8-144 9-163.

Bowling: Srinath 16-7-42-3; Prasad 14-5-25-0; Kumble 27-2-71-4; Kapoor 8-2-19-2; Joshi 7.3-2-13-0.

INDIA - Second Innings

W V Raman lbw b De Villiers 2

N R Mongia not out 4

A Kumble not out 0

Extras (lb1) 1

Total (for 1, 4 overs) 7

Fall: 1-2.

Bowling: De Villiers 2-1-2-1; Klusener 2-0-4-0.

Umpires: S Venkataraghavan (Ind) and D R Shepherd (Eng).