Tags: Nagpur , Cricket , Virender Sehwag , Ind vs SA

Nagpur: India may be facing the prospect of an innings defeat inside four days but dashing opener Virender Sehwag today sounded confident that the hosts would pull a rabbit out of the hat and save the opening Test against South Africa.

"Against Australia (in 2001) we had followed on and won.

Anything can happen in this game. Sachin Tendulkar is still batting and he's a very experienced hand. Murali Vijay is also batting well. We will fight it out," said the flamboyant opener who scored his 18th hundred in India's first innings.

India, who trailed South Africa by a massive 325 runs in the first innings, were 66 for the loss of Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir in the second innings and needed 259 runs more to stave off an innings defeat with only eight wickets and a largely inexperienced lower order to come.

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