WATCH: Marco Jansen engages in aggressive interaction with KL Rahul, India batter replies

Star South African pacer Marco Jansen attracted the eyeballs for his aggression towards the Indian wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul in the first innings of the match. However, the Indian star didn’t come up with a specific reply but he came up with a short smile towards Jansen. The video of this moment also went viral on social media as soon as a social media user shared it over X (formerly Twitter).

Speaking of the game on the first day of the Centurion Test, KL Rahul stood strong as he went unbeaten at the individual score of 70 runs at the time of stumps due to the bad lights at the SuperSport Park in Centurion.

Here’s the video of Marco Jansen in aggressive interaction with KL Rahul:

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Earlier on day 1 of the first Test of the two-match series, the hosts dominated most of the part on the opening day of the Boxing Day Test. Indian top order crumbled against the Proteas pace attack as they lost 3 wickets just at the score of 24 runs in the initial phase of the first innings.

Later, former skipper Virat Kohli and star middle-order batter Shreyas Iyer stitched a crucial partnership of 68 runs for the fourth wicket. Kohli and Iyer contributed with the individual scores of 38 and 31 runs, respectively. Apart from these two, lower middle-order batter Shardul Thakur also added 24 runs with the bat, hitting 3 fours with the bat.

Eventually, India ended up with 208 runs on the board for the loss of 8 wickets, having KL Rahul and Mohammed Siraj there in the middle at the individual scores of 70 and 0 runs, respectively.

Star Proteas pacer Kagiso Rabada impressed everyone with his stellar bowling performance; he claimed a five-wicket haul; he also achieved a big milestone, completing 500 international wickets across all formats. Apart from Rabada, Marco Jansen and Nandre Burger also claimed 1 and 2 wickets, respectively for South Africa.