Plays of the second day of the Indian Premier League

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There has been some uncertainty over players' availability for the Bangalore franchise. Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher were expected to leave for the South African domestic Twenty20 competition but will now stay back

It took a masterful innings from Sourav Ganguly to give India a slender 23-run advantage on another enthralling day at Green Park

South Africa made the most of winning the toss, grinding out 265 on a tense first day

South Africa didn't get a practice game prior to this series but they would have been pleasantly surprised with the generosity granted to them at the MA Chidambaram Stadium

Both captains might as well have shook hands at that point and planted a RIP sign in the middle of the pitch

India's hopes of fielding a full-strength side for the second Test in Ahmedabad took a blow after Sachin Tendulkar was ruled out with a groin injury

Rahul Dravid says he exceeded his own expectations with what he's achieved in the game, after becoming the sixth batsman to score 10,000 Test runs

India needed to show some initiative towards building a big lead, declare their intent and go for a win; Virender Sehwag went early and the rest paled in comparison when it came to setting the agenda

Rahul Dravid became the sixth batsmen in Test history to break the 10,000-run barrier when he went from 79 to 80 on the fourth day

Virender Sehwag admitted that being dropped from the Test side "motivated" him to concentrate better, enabling him to produce what he termed as his "best innings".

Mickey Arthur, the South African coach, said he had not visualised the game taking such a course in his "wildest dreams", admitting that he had not seen a better Test innings than Virender Sehwag's 309 in Chennai

Rahul Dravid termed Virender Sehwag's triple-hundred a "really audacious knock"

Virender Sehwag's strokeplay is dazzling enough, but it's the context which makes it even more thrilling

Virender Sehwag admitted India's intensity had dropped during the course of the second day

With his gentle smile and composed batting, Hashim Amla seems a throwback to an earlier age

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan winds up the Plays from day two of the first Test between India and South Africa in Chennai