New Delhi. Guwahati Test Match is very special. For the first time a Test match is being played on this ground. With this match, the age-old tradition of Test cricket has got a new form, in which tea break is happening first and lunch break is happening later. Meanwhile, the South African team has also created history. This is the first time in the history of Test cricket that the top 4 batsmen of a team got a good start and no batsman was able to play a big innings. South African batsmen must have regretted this.

In fact, South Africa’s top 4 batsmen scored at least 35 runs in the first innings of the second match of the ongoing two-match Test series against India, but the surprising thing was that no batsman could reach a half-century. Aiden Markram was out after scoring 38, Ryan Rickelton 35, Tristan Stubbs 49 and captain Temba Bavuma was out after scoring 41 runs. They got starts, but no one could reach half-century.

South Africa batted 81.5 overs on the first day and scored a total of 247 runs. During this period, 6 wickets fell for South Africa. The kind of match that took place in Kolkata. Looking at this, it can be said that the ongoing match at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati will definitely go on till at least the fourth day. Now it remains to be seen how many runs the remaining four batsmen of South Africa add and how India’s innings will be. For the first time in this series a team has crossed the 200 mark.

tea break before lunch
Due to early sunrise and sunset in the Guwahati Test match, tea break is being taken after the first session and lunch break is being taken after the second session. There is less light in the evening. This is the reason that the first day’s play had to be stopped at around 4 o’clock and even 90 overs of play could not be completed. To avoid this, the tradition of Test cricket has been broken. In the Day Test, we never saw a tea break after the first session. However, this has been happening in pink ball test matches.