1st Test: India all out for 201 on Day 1 against South Africa

From 168/7 at tea, India were bowled out for 201 with spin accounting for seven wickets in all. Dean Elgar, who had stunned India with 4/22 before tea, did not play a further role in troubling them as Vernon Philander removed Ravindra Jadeja for 38 - the second highest individual score of the innings - and Imran Tahir mopped up the tail.
Tea Report
How much of India's pre-match preparation and video analysis had centred on the prospects of South African opener Dean Elgar, who had six wickets in 17 previous Tests with his part-time left-arm spin, posing a threat with the ball cannot be ascertained.But Elgar it was who stunned the hosts with four wickets, including two in two balls midway through the afternoon session, to leave them 168/7 by tea on day one at Mohali's PCA Stadium.
By the time South Africa's second specialist spinner Imran Tahir was called on to bowl, Elgar had bowled five overs for career-best figures of 3/16. At tea, Elgar had 4/22, his victims including Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and Wriddhiman Saha. Murali Vijay was India's bright hope with 75, a fine innings that was ended when he missed a heavy sweep shot, and the tail will need to pull their weight from here.
Elgar had been tossed the ball for the 21st over of India's innings. Vijay was on 29 and Cheteshwar Pujara on 30, their partnership at the time worth 60 after Shikhar Dhawan had fallen without a run on the board, flashing Vernon Philander's fourth ball into Hashim Amla's lap at first slip. Lunch was roughly 20 minutes away. With his fourth ball, bowled from around the stumps, Elgar trapped Pujara lbw for 31, the batsman playing for turn that never arrived.
Immediately, Amla brought back the debutant Kagiso Rabada to bowl to Virat Kohli and the second bowling change in a row worked a charm. Closing the face of the bat early when working the ball towards midwicket the India skipper was excellently held by Elgar at cover for 1. At 65/3, survival was the need of the moment and Vijay and Ajinkya Rahane batted out the remainder of the session.
Post lunch, Elgar returned for the 11th over of the afternoon and produced a teasing, flighted delivery outside off stump that lured Rahane, on 15, into a drive that was edged straight to Amla at slip. That was the last ball of the over. Off his next delivery, Elgar pouched Wriddhiman Saha for a first-ball duck with another drifter that took the edge and went to Amla.
Vijay had looked unfettered by the various bowling changes and wickets they produced, batting with solidity and the odd shot of flair such as the times he dashed out to Simon Harmer and twice crashed boundaries over extra cover. Back in the side after missing India's last Test, Vijay looked on course for a hundred before he tried to sweep Harmer was struck in front of middle.
Elgar's fourth came when Amit Mishra swung to long-on, and an eighth wicket should have come not long after except replays show Rabad had over-stepped, and so R Ashwin got a life on 1. Ravindra Jadeja, in his first Test since August 2014, was batting on 26 at the interval.
Brief scores: India 201 in 68 overs (Murali Vijay 75, Dean Elgar 4/22) v South Africa