"You need to back yourself toe execute well whether it's the first ball or 100th ball," says van der Dussen, who didn't actually face 100 balls. "In the past, I maybe would have taken 15-20 balls to assess, but the conditions told me I had to get going from fairly early on."

SachinVehale: "Insane batting average after 30 matches RVDD"

It remains to be seen how good a score this is, but it was quite a recovery from South Africa after the first 20 overs or so. The hosts may feel they weren't able to fully accelerate in the final ten, but in the end, they've probably done enough to give the bowlers runs to play with. They've exactly doubled their score after 30 overs, so that's not too shabby.

Mohit: "2 Hundreds and still below 280. Hmmmm. Enough for Virat Century though :P" Someone's optimistic!

How close can South Africa get to 300, then?

Vaibhavi: "I would still say, this is not up to the mark. See the run rate graph in live stats. It should not be a flat line for more then 25 Overs. but its flat for 40 overs. Not even a slight kink after 40."