Visakhapatnam: To breach Cheteshwar Pujara's defences on any surface even once is a tremendous accomplishment. To do it twice, in the same game, and that too on a deck that offered little purchase, must have delighted Vernon Philander no end.

The seasoned South African medium-pacer got one to straighten and beat Pujara's outside edge in the first innings as he rattled off and middle. On Saturday's fourth day of the first Test at the ACA-VDCA Stadium, he produced an even better delivery that shaped away and pinged the right-hander's back pad. By then, Pujara had danced to 81, which made the timing and the mode of dismissal even more impressive.