Visakhapatnam: Cheteshwar Pujara had the best seat in the ground as he soaked in the fulsome entertainment Rohit Sharma provided for the second time in four days at the ACA-VDCA ground in the first Test against South Africa. In his first outing as an opener, Rohit had blitzed to 176 in the Indian first innings. In far trickier conditions for stroke-making on Saturday, the Mumbai batsman embraced the subliminal on his way to becoming the first Indian opener since Sunil Gavaskar in 1978 to make two hundreds in the same Test.

Rohit's magical 127 allowed India to tighten the screws on the visitors, who will start the final day on 11 for one after being set 395 for the unlikeliest of victories. "The way Rohit was batting, I felt we were scoring at a decent pace and I could take some extra time to settle down," observed Pujara, who made just eight in his first 60 deliveries before kicking on to finish on 81 from 148 during a second-wicket stand of 169.