Cape Town:Rishabh Pant's dazzling century on Thursday helped India trudge to 198 against South Africa in the third and final match of the series here at Newlands.
Pant (100 off 139 balls) blasted all around the ground, hitting and clearing the fence at will when the other batters failed to make a mark in the series decider match.
South Africa need 212 runs to win the match and it will be up to the bowlers to pack the Proteas within the stipulated total.
Virat Kohli, who looked resolute throughout his innings of 29 runs, was again a victim of a similar outside off stump dismissal off Lungi Ngidi.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Shardul Thakur scored 7 and 5 runs respectively while Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami couldn't open their accounts.
The umpires called for tea break at the fall of final Indian wicket in the extended second session.
This was the first Test match in 145-year-history where all 20 batters of one team were caught.
The day belonged to Pant as he scored a hundred which is as good as one would ever see and what stood out was his shot selection, which was immaculate.
He didn't do anything that was 'un-Pant' like as there was a rasping square cut off a rising one from Kagiso Rabada (3/53). There was the audacious down the track cover drive off Duanne Olivier and that six over long-on off Keshav Maharaj came just an over before lunch.
These are all shots that one associates with the dashing keeper-batter but what was exemplary was his use of discretion as to what kind of deliveries he would attack.
In between defending the good balls, he drove Maharaj out of the attack with a one-handed slog sweep and a six over long-off. When Olivier dug one short at his pace, it was pulled for six as he hit six fours and four sixes in all.