South Africa stonewall at Kotla after Rahane トン
By Amlan Chakraborty
NEW DELHI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - South Africa 訴える手段／行楽地d to dogged stonewalling in their 追跡 of an improbable 481-run victory 的 after Ajinkya Rahane 一打／打撃d his second century of the match to 強化する India's 支配する on the fourth and final 実験（する） on Sunday.
The hosts 宣言するd their second innings on 267-5 half an hour before the lunch break as soon as Rahane (100) became the fifth Indian to 得点する／非難する／２０ centuries in each innings of a 実験（する） match on the penultimate day at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium.
船長／主将 Hashim Amla led South Africa's extraordinarily dour reply, taking 46 balls to get off the 示す as the 訪問者s はうd to 72-2 at stumps after 72 overs of relentless 封鎖するing over two dot ball-littered 開会／開廷／会期s.
Amla was unbeaten after making 23 painstaking runs from 207 balls while AB de Villiers managed 11 off 91 with South Africa still 409 behind the victory 的.
The 訪問者s lost Dean Elgar cheaply before Amla and Temba Bavuma (34) started 封鎖するing balls after balls in a desperate 企て，努力，提案 to take the match into the fifth and final day.
Even after Ravichandran Ashwin 解任するd Bavuma, the 得点する／非難する／２０ moved at a funereal pace as de Villiers too 抑制（する）d his natural 侵略, needing 33 balls to get off the 示す.
にもかかわらず the presence of 同時代の cricket's most destructive batsman in de Villiers and one of the most fluent scorers in Amla, the first 10 overs of their 共同 did not 産する／生じる a 選び出す／独身 run and things did not 改善する later either.
"We have managed to 持つ／拘留する them 支援する and hopefully tomorrow, we can carry on with the same," Bavuma told reporters, 確信して his team can bat out three 開会／開廷／会期s on Monday to eke out a draw.
"It's a 堅い ask to bat out the 90 overs. It will be day five, so you 推定する／予想する the wicket to 悪化する even more. But we have the experience, we have the 技術 and whatever happens, we will be going 負かす／撃墜する fighting.
"Definitely we will carry on the spirit tomorrow and try our best to 海難救助 a draw out of this game."
RAHANE'S SECOND
In a low-得点する／非難する／２０ing series in which no other batsman from either 味方する managed a 選び出す／独身 hundred, Rahane took 206 balls to bring up his second of the match and the sixth of his 実験（する） career with the help of eight 境界s and three sixes.
After India 再開するd on 190-4, Rahane played a couple of uppish 運動s before bending his 膝s for an upper-削減（する）, chipping a Morne Morkel 配達／演説／出産 over third man in an uncharacteristic show of 侵略.
At the other end, captain Virat Kohli (88) 追加するd five runs to his 夜通し 得点する／非難する／２０ before a low Kyle Abbott 配達／演説／出産 罠にかける him 脚 before to end the series-high 154-run fifth wicket 共同.
Rahane could not be 否定するd his hundred, though.
The 27-year-old slog-swept Imran Tahir over midwicket for his second six of the innings and stepped out against Elgar for his third to 嵐／襲撃する into the 90s.
Rahane then took a quick 選び出す／独身 off 脚-spinner Tahir to join an エリート league of Indians that also 含むd Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar (thrice), Rahul Dravid (twice) and Kohli. (Editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
